Well, we fought this battle before.

You will hear the absurd and, I am sorry to say, un-American pleas for you to invoke blasphemy speech restrictions upon yourselves in the discourse in order to dishonestly avoid terms like Islamism, Islamist, Ummah, takfir, Islamic State…

You can't have it both ways.

We need to transition to countering violent Islamism because that is what they call themselves.

We should be trying to expand our friendships and isolate our enemies.

Why should we be perhaps providing dollars to terrorist groups? I hope these groups are being vetted.

The key question, I think, that Congress needs to ask is what has happened, potentially, to create this dramatic increase since 2008?

The reason this whack-a-mole program continues is because we have not been engaging in true reform for the separation of mosque and State.

I have been to Islamic Society of North America organizations. I think that they are an excellent group.

That is not a slippery slope to defining or destroying the Second Amendment of the United States.

The reason our homeland security is failing is because the pool that they are swimming in, they can't look at the Omar Mateens of the world.

I am not going to say that Daesh is Islamic. There is neither a State, nor they are Islamic.

I mean, you and I are old enough to remember--I am older than you, but--that when they were going after the mafia in New York, the FBI and the NYPD were in the Italian American community, not because they didn't trust Italian Americans…

I want to thank all the witnesses for their testimony.

I just wanted to get that on the record because of many of the unfair allegations that have been made against the NYPD over the years from certain organizations and from the media.

I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, this is a great day for America. Let me, at the outset, commend Chairman Goodlatte for the outstanding work that he has done, for always keeping his word, for being a person we could always…

I'm doing very well. I felt as though all of us were part of it and that Donald Trump wants to cut through and it's interesting dealing with a businessman as opposed to a political person and he's able it to weed out a lot of the…

But being an unindicted co-conspirator in one of the largest money-laundering terrorist cases in the country, shouldn't that be sufficient grounds to deny a grant?

I ask unanimous consent that the remainder of the hearing be closed to the public under House Rule XI, clause 2(g)(2), because disclosure of testimony, evidence, or other matters would endanger National security or compromise sensitive law…

Today we find our Nation confronting a complex external threat picture that ranges from ISIS, al-Qaeda and its affiliates, to traditional foes such as Russia, Iran, and China.

In New York, my understanding is that at JFK Airport, there is an 82 percent increase in the maximum time between 2015 to 2016.

I have an amendment to the text at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Strike all after the resolving clause and insert the following: That the House of Representatives-- (1)…

I have an amendment to the preamble at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Strike the preamble and insert the following: Whereas the more than 35 million Americans of Irish…

This year is the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising in Dublin, Ireland, which was the seminal moment in the fight for Irish independence. Since that time, the United States and Ireland have had an extremely close relationship in trade…

In 2005, the 9/11 Commission gave the U.S. Government an 'A-' in combating terrorist financing.