Today I rise to honor Mr. Harold Corbin and thank him for his service to the 11th Congressional District. This last Saturday marked 50 years of continued service to this great district. It was the first district meeting that he had missed…

At what point, when we continue to just send money and send money and send money and never take it away, does the leverage of the money that we send them stop being a leverage?

It is still difficult to go home and talk about aid to the Palestinians, you know, and $400 million plus when we have their minister of prisons saying that the people in prison--terrorists--are heroes.

I agree and... I am a student of the Middle East... and I understand that there are but at some point when our words become meaningless the leverage of those dollars they cease to exist.

Ambassador Patterson, thank you for your service. Truly, the Egyptian people know that you love and care for them and I just want to say thank you for doing that.

Can we send a very clear message that unless this stops the money will stop?

I look forward to hearing your testimony on how we from a policy standpoint can best implement policy to help the Lebanese people enjoy a peaceful and secure environment.

It is really about making sure that we stand with our allies, that we create a safe and secure environment for the Lebanese people.

I want to follow up a little bit on where my friend and colleague from California because it gets to be a very difficult sell.

I thank the gentleman from Georgia for this commonsense piece of legislation. Mr. Chairman, to hear the debate on the floor this morning about Mr. Ryan's budget, you would think that we are arguing about increases or decreases in taxes…

as an elected official I can assure you there's a number of media outlets I would love to sanction

I think probably for me, as we've started to look at this, is the challenges that we've seen from freedom of the press...