Chris Smith

Every dollar we spend in this area is a dollar that pays off in that child's life.

We also don't want to see a crowding out of other worthwhile programs robbing those in order to get to a critical mass and PEPFAR certainly has been successful beyond our dreams in many, many ways.

If you could, again, how much has actually been spent? Not any for the last 2 years from that spigot?

To not fully support these efforts and to cut funding for these programs that represent a moral failure on the part of our Government.

The global scale of child mortality is staggering with 6.6 million children dying before their fifth birthday in 2012 alone.

So $200 million, whatever you think, we need a sustainable and a very accurate number to fight for it.

Thank you very much for your testimony and again in your written, more elaborate testimony you just lay out so many good recommendations for this subcommittee to consider.

I offered legislation that is law today that has been absolutely unimplemented, first by the Bush administration and now by the Obama administration, that targets people who commit repressive acts in the People's Republic of China.

This man tortures. His bully boys, like Yanukovych's, are known for their use and employment of torture against the civil society.

Yanukovych won a free and fair election in 2010. He won it against Yulia Tymoshenko.

This is targeted, it is modest. It is proportionate. It holds harmless the Russian people, while picking out those who have committed egregious acts of corruption and violence.

Russia's land grab in Crimea violates the core principles of the bilateral and multilateral treaties between Ukraine and Russia.

The People's Republic of China, as we all know, is a dictatorship. It is a gulag state.

What are the consequences for the U.S. security if Taiwan were to come under PRC control?

Shouldn't we have a 'one China, one Taiwan' policy?

This is one big massive coverup that needs to be exposed, and I can assure you that this subcommittee and this chairman will not cease so long as I have breath to do so.

National security concerns can never trump fundamental human rights.

How seriously do we take that threat? Sanctions now have been levied, as they ought to be...

We believe education is the key to Africa's future success.

Thank you, and Eliot Engel, for crafting this excellent bill, the Electrify Africa Act.

So I think that is what we are really missing here is the pressure--the high-level pressure that says this matters to us deeply and in the absence of that inclusivity and those rights how can you build this country, and you won't get our…

Well, frankly, I am not suggesting multiple venues. I mean, he is recommending and it sounded like it had some merit to it, that--the idea of bringing people here, perhaps to the White House, you know, where things could be--the ball could…

I have no further requests for time. I, again, thank my good friend and colleague from New York, Eliot Engel, for his sponsorship of this important resolution. I yield back the balance of my time.

I just want to take 30 seconds to respond and thank the gentlelady from Ohio for her very eloquent defense of the Ukrainian people and for, again, reminding Americans and the world of the pivotal role that the patriarch and the highest, as…

Torture is rife in Eritrea's detention centers with prisoners being held in such inhumane conditions as metal shipping containers, underground cells and in the open air desert surrounded by barbed wire or thorns.