under Aung San Suu Kyi's leadership, the NLD voted against all four bills discriminating against the Rohingya population.

In fact, you would have to have every seat won by one party or in coalition with parties to in essence have any possibility of affecting change in terms of Burma's constitution.

The movement of extreme Buddhist nationalists, the Association to Protect Race and Religion, or Ma Ba Tha, is gaining strength across Burma as it relentlessly pursues a campaign fueling fear and bigotry against religious minorities.

I was elected to Congress in 1990. I went to Congress, Aung San Suu Kyi went to prison. It was a fundamental injustice.

What is unprecedented about Burma's elections now, in 2015, is that no one actually knows who is going to win.

I wish I could count how many times Members of Congress have come to this floor about the need to ``never forget'' September 11, 9/11, its victims, and our first responders. Members have offered resolutions, have given speeches, have come…

What impact would cutting it have and that was the point I was suggesting.

If we think that this is not a national issue, this is a State's rights issue; we really have to reexamine what we are doing here.

Surely this hearing can't be my colleagues' only response to calls from millions of struggling, middle-class, hard-working Americans who are concerned about how they will put their children through college.

Thirteen years ago, I stood here in the House of Representatives and I gave the benefit of the doubt to the then- President, and he took us to war. I will give today the benefit of the doubt to your President to take us to peace.

Mike Kelly is a good man. I like Mike. I admire him. But I think he did a disservice to the House and to this debate by bringing up the issue of 9/11. I do thank him for honesty for at least showing that that is what this is all about…

Training our nation's doctors has long been a shared responsibility between individual teaching hospitals and the Federal Government.