Chris Smith

Now, my hope is that pro-life and prochoice people of good faith will begin to find common ground.

As long as these organizations refuse to come to terms with this history, they will be vulnerable to accusations that they are still trying to control people instead of empower them.

I do believe passionately that abortion is violence against children, and it is injurious to women

We have more than that being eliminated in India and China.

We hope that this hearing will help us better understand how we can play a role in curbing such horrific practices and abuses against the girl child and women.

It is a national shame for us that despite this, female feticide and infanticide continue in many parts of our country.

Improving this ration is not merely a question of stricter compliance with existing laws.

The falling child sex ratio is an indictment of our social values.

Do we have clear proof that Assad himself ordered it?

Their word, 'alarming,' that we have failed over the course of the last several years to do what ought to have been done.

This bill does that. Also included is peacekeeping, which is so important, and I am so glad that you have included the $300 million for the Mali peacekeeping in Africa.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. First of all, let me thank you for bringing an important piece of legislation before the committee, you and Eliot Engel.

One of them was the reauthorization of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, and the other was the International Megan's Law.

We believe that energy diversity is a very important part of the all-of-the-above strategy. Coal creates a lot of jobs, it creates a lot of economic benefits in those parts of the country in which coal production is important.

Markets have a lot to do with it, and it is also part of the rationale why we have to be working very closely with industry to make sure that we are working together to develop these technologies to make sure that coal remains relevant.

If we do not move forward on these technologies, that we are not going to have a pathway to ensure that coal is part of the clean energy economy of the future.

Our job is to make sure that they are done in a way that is most cost-effective, that minimizes the impact on consumers.

I would say that is categorically not a true statement.

I think it is important that we fund critical programs that allow us to do this work.

I would say that this is an area in which it is critical for the government to be involved.

We agree that most of our programs are focused very strictly on reducing CO2 emissions and greenhouse gas emissions.

I read the report and it was horrible how children are exploited in Cuba.

10 years ago sat where you sat at one of the hearings I had on trafficking and showed a video of police being tipped off in Mumbai.

Let me just ask you, has the Vietnamese Government initiated charges against labor export companies or against traffickers involved with the Russian case?

We all have a shared goal of protecting our children, whether those are our citizens or children here in the hemisphere.