the idea that it should be zeroed out, it doesn't make sense because sometimes it is misspent.

But just saying anybody from these countries is a potential terrorist, I think, is overdoing it.

Congressman, at the beginning of the hearing you said, rightly, that we haven't suffered another 9/11-scale-style attack in the United States and we can all be, of course, thankful for that.

Congressman King, I would like to point that one of the examples in my testimony actually involves a would-be jihadi in Queens who was in touch with an ISIS handler overseas in Syria and was getting instructions on how to carry out an…

The radicalization of our own people through the internet is an extreme problem that needs more robust defenses.

Another idea is we should stay in Afghanistan.

It doesn't make any sense, because of the 94 Americans that have been killed by terrorists since 9/11...

I think in only three of those countries, we even have embassies. So, to me, that was the logic that went into those seven.

The visa ban--the visa ban is a temporary ban from the seven Muslim majority countries is totally ineffective if you look at what has actually happened since 9/11.

I think, in the long term, is a terrible idea.

I am concerned about proposals that would change the composition of the FOMC by removing the vice chairman position and the New York Fed's permanent voting status.

I commend you for what you are trying to do. I think it is essential and I think, again, a 90-day pause is--if that saves American lives, then it is certainly a pause worth taking.

I strongly urge support of the gentleman's bill. I urge my colleagues to vote for H.R. 642 in order to bolster the information sharing environment within the Department of Homeland Security and between the Department and State and local…

I, once again, thank the gentleman and commend him for his leadership on this issue. I urge my colleagues to support H.R. 697, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the…

I am calling on the Attorney General in supporting his efforts to fully prosecute WikiLeaks and its founder for violating the Espionage Act and I'm also calling on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to declare WikiLeaks a foreign terrorist…

I thank the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Goodlatte), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee for yielding. Let me, at the outset, thank him for the outstanding work that he has done in bringing this bill, this legislation, to this historic…

But once you say that anyone who is Muslim and is anti-terror is on our side, then you end up doing the bidding of theocracies like Iran and Saudi Arabia.

So when you hear that in America this attempt to invoke blasphemy laws, it is actually doing the bidding of the elephant in the room.

I get calls and e-mails all the time from communities saying ISIL, Daesh, or some other terrorist organization does not represent our religion, our community, or our faith.

That is what happens when you work with the Saudis and the Muslim groups that Secretary Johnson went and spoke to.

We are ignoring movements like the Muslim Reform Movement.

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

It is time to stop engaging Muslim Brotherhood legacy groups and recognize their misogynist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, anti-American underpinnings.

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.