I want to thank my good friend, Mr. Goodlatte, for yielding; and I want to thank Mr. Goodlatte and Mr. King for their extraordinary leadership on this bill. Mr. Speaker, with all due respect to the President of the United States, the…

I want to thank Chairman Goodlatte for his extraordinary work on this legislation, Mr. Conyers, and, of course, Peter King who has been absolutely tenacious picking up the good work that Dan Lungren, a former member of Congress and…

I want to thank the distinguished chairman for yielding and for his leadership on this issue and Ranking Member Engel, and especially thank Chairman Salmon for authoring this important piece of legislation. North Korea, as we know, poses…

I thank Chairman Royce for his leadership on AGOA in general. I thank Karen Bass, who has worked doggedly for years, last year for the reauthorization. I see Mr. McDermott, who has also been so active over the years on this and critical to…

I want to thank my good friend, Mr. Harper, and Ms. Esty for their strong support for the bill. Ms. Esty is one of the cosponsors of the bill. I also want to thank Chairwoman Miller for her leadership and good work in shepherding this…

I thank my good friend, Mrs. Foxx for yielding and thank her for her extraordinary Pro-life leadership. Madam Speaker, in an unconscionable abuse of power, for almost 2 years, the State of California has forced all insurance plans under…

Absolutely not. Thank you for the question. Let me point out that every bill we have brought--the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban, the Born Alive Act, every single piece of legislation that would seek to protect the lives of unborn…

It is the gentleman who called it murder. I call it the taking of human life. We need to hold the abortionists liable. We, in the pro-life movement, look at the women as co-victims. I have worked--I say to my friend from Florida--with well…

I thank the gentleman from Florida for his extraordinary leadership on this bill and on the life issue. Mr. Chairman, on June 8, 1983, 33 years ago, I sponsored the amendment to ban the use of taxpayer funds to subsidize abortion in the…

I want to thank Chairman Royce again for bringing this important bill to the floor, and to Eliot Engel for his leadership and Mr. Deutch, and especially to Mr. Trott, the sponsor of H.R. 3694, the Strategy To Oppose Predatory Organ…

I thank my good friend and colleague Ileana Ros-Lehtinen for yielding. I want to thank the chairman emeritus of the full Foreign Affairs Committee for the defense of vulnerable persons in China, especially the Falun Gong, men and women who…

I want to thank my good friend, Chairman Royce, for his leadership on this bill, the markup, and for the very timely recommendations he and staff made to improve it. I would like to thank Eliot Engel again for working hand in glove in a…