I recognize the impediments that have been placed upon the banking industry today--in North Carolina alone we have lost 40 percent of our banks--and truly restricting credit and capital, particularly in the rural communities which I serve.

I very much appreciate the focus that you provide to rural America.

I deeply appreciate the time, offering me this time to speak.

Thank you for this important hearing, and I thank each of you for your participation.

We need the leadership of Martin Luther King in my City today.

Angela Merkel and Germany, they were a central player in the JCPOA agreement. Is that correct?

In fact, she was a strong advocate of this agreement. Was that not correct?

So the same person who was a strong advocate for this agreement now is the one who is stating we have a major problem.

I think in my written testimony, I noted that, for example, Daniel Ortega has acknowledged that he gets about $500 million a year from Venezuela...

I think the primary leader, or the designer of the template are both the FMLN in El Salvador and the FSLN in Nicaragua...

So when you have Venezuela using the FARC, which is both a designated terrorist organization and a major drug trafficking organization, as an instrument of their foreign policy...