We treat addiction after it is there, good luck.

I know in this case that the commitment from the VA is there to get this on the forefront.

As you have heard, I associate myself with the remarks of the positive nature of the provisions in this bill. It has been the House Veterans' Affairs Committee that has been in the forefront of improving veterans care, from the post-9/11…

I can assure you, Mr. Smith, we are raising this, we are talking about these issues.

I cannot tell you that I feel like it is necessarily any better on the rule of law on human rights, stretching from religious freedoms to reproductive freedoms to many of the other issues that we have discussed in here.

I think it is important to--as this Commission, maybe one of the last bastions in the Congress of trying to stand on human rights as a whole and talk about the importance of our policies.

I think as a Nation, that we can't decouple our economic interests from our human rights and our values.

I said, 'That is not so surprising. What is more troubling to me is that students here might not know what happened.'

Please don't ever stop speaking about it. Please tell our story. Please tell what is going on. It is critically important.

This Congress has no more passionate, committed human rights champion than Chris Smith.

in the spirit of trying to find a balance between compassion, smart economic policy, and being good stewards of taxpayer dollars, that is our responsibility

I think with the first couple of Presidents there was some movement, some movement, but I believe that under this current regime they have taken some big steps backward.