Lee Zeldin: “It is a privilege to serve on the House Foreign Affairs Committee under the leadership of Chairman Royce and Ranking…”

“It is a privilege to serve on the House Foreign Affairs Committee under the leadership of Chairman Royce and Ranking Member Eliot Engel. I am very grateful that they brought this legislation to the House floor for consideration today. As a co-chair of the House Republican Israel Caucus, the original cosponsor on this piece of legislation, I would strongly encourage all of my colleagues to support this important bill. I am thinking of values, what drove Taylor Force to sign up for the United States Military Academy at West Point, to deploy into combat, to protect and defend our freedoms and liberties; willing to lay it all on the line; willing to risk everything for our flag, for our Constitution, not just for family back home. He is joined here--he is certainly with us in spirit--with his parents, Stuart and Robbi, who are in the gallery, and they know that the legacy of Taylor Force's service and sacrifice is one that already is showing a change in policy in the interactions between our Nation and those in that region. Because as we think of values, the values of the Palestinian Authority is one that incites violence, that financially rewards terrorism, that treats terrorists like they are heads of state at their funerals and calls them martyrs. I stand with Taylor Force. The House Foreign Affairs Committee stands with Taylor Force.…”