Dan Donovan: “I want to thank you for your valuable testimony and for clarifying for the Members of this committee the hollow excuses…”

Protecting human rights across the globe is not just morally the right thing to do, but it is also vital to our own national security.

I, once again, urge my colleagues to support H.R. 2182. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from New York (Mr. Donovan) that the House suspend…

I thank the chairman for yielding to me. Before I came to Congress, I was an elected district attorney for 12 years in Staten Island, New York. Prior to that, I spent 8 years in the Manhattan DA's office as a prosecutor. Very few things…

First, I would like to thank Subcommittee Chairman Carter and Ranking Member Roybal-Allard, along with the House Homeland Security Committee and all their staff for the hard work on this amendment. Mr. Chairman, I am proud to rise in…