The better question, perhaps, may be what are the costs of keeping it open.

There has been until recently a bipartisan consensus that there are significant national security and foreign policy risks associated with keeping the facility open.

It's also important to reflect on where our policies have gone astray and maybe made the situation worse.

Guantanamo was a mistake. History will reflect that. It was created in the early days as a consequence of fear, anger, and political expediency. It ignored centuries of rule of law and international agreements. It does not make us safer…

The conclusion was also reached by nonpartisan military leaders across the services.

They're called super max prisons for a reason. No one has ever escaped from one.

We should clean up this stain on America's commitment to justice and democracy.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for calling this hearing.

I'm not for releasing anybody who was guilty, but I'm also not for keeping people in prison year after year after year with no trial.

I would like to recognize Ranking Member Engel for his work to strengthen and rationalize U.S. Government efforts to increase American exports.

I am pleased to be the lead Democratic cosponsor of H.R. 2449, your bill to extend the current U.S.-South Korea civil nuclear cooperation agreement until 2016.

I must respectfully oppose this measure today, the U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Preservation Act, and the reason is in my view the legislation simply isn't necessary.

This resolution calls on the Chinese Government to allow an investigation into this issue and urges the State Department to include an analysis of state-sanctioned nonconsensual organ harvesting in the annual human rights report.

I am happy to support Ms. Ros-Lehtinen's measure expressing our concern over truly unsettling reports of state-sanctioned organ harvesting in the People's Republic of China.

I think the timing is not designed, frankly, to promote more dialogue and more thought with respect to our bilateral relationships with Cuba.

the people of Cuba overwhelmingly want to see an end to the U.S. military occupation of the eastern side of the island.

I think our foreign assistance budget remains constrained, which I think is an absolute mistake.

Let me first say, Ms. Hyde, your leadership of the MCC has been exemplary.

During rollcall vote No. 92 on H.R. 2406, I mistakenly recorded my vote as ``no'' when I should have voted ``yes.'' Amendment No. 3 Offered by Ms. Jackson Lee The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on…

NATO needs to permanently station a brigade in Poland, and the Baltic States and every ally need to get above the 2 percent requirement for their defense spending.

I don't understand why the funding request from last year hasn't gone up.

we should support the President's billion-dollar request for Central America.

we will never acquiesce to his illegal occupation of Crimea, and his aggression in Ukraine will not be tolerated.

we should continue standing with Colombia's people and government as they build a peaceful future.

I'm encouraged by the President's commitment of significant additional resources to the defense of Europe.