Jean Schmidt

Sometimes you have to speak with a loud voice and say, 'Enough is enough.'

Chavez has violated this. Chavez's laws last year to restrict the legislature and efforts to control the judicial system are clear violations of the charter.

I would like to also highlight another subsidy, and that is the food service. Last year we lost almost $61 million in the food service on Amtrak.

I do not believe that Serbia should be permitted into the EU at this point.

This bill shows the importance of the U.S. sanctions as they exist, but it also points out the need for additional sanctions.

The announcement of the plot to assassinate the Ambassador from Saudi Arabia... illustrates the dangers that we live in.

I really would like to speak to what I think are some of the positive benefits of this overall bill and really focus my points on the peacekeeping issue.

This is their money. This is not our money.

How do we best spend the hard-working American taxpayer dollars in this country and abroad?

I want to make sure that our hard-working Americans are having the dollars that they send to the Federal Government being spent prudently.

China's one-child policy breeds a culture of forced abortions and involuntary sterilization.

We have a responsibility to know how our money is being spent by organizations here and abroad.

The best defense is a good offense. For the Taiwanese, that means the F-16s, and we need to sell them to them and sell them to them immediately.

I think that the administration, respectfully, has handled this rather poorly.

I have to wonder, why are we still providing U.S. assistance to the Palestinian Authority?

What are we getting in return for our money? Since the 1990s, the United States has provided over $4 billion in aid. But what is the benefit?

I support a free, secure, and independent Palestine state, but never--and I mean never--at the expense of a free, secure, and independent Israel.

I encourage my fellow Members to consider how we can find savings in these programs while continuing to provide nutrition assistance to our families in need.

The SNAP Program is designed to adjust to the needs of our population, increasing when more people need food assistance and decreasing when the economy improves.

More than 75 percent of the Agriculture Committee's budget goes to nutrition programs, which serve a broad range of people throughout our country.

We will be looking at how programs use their funds, how effectively they serve their stakeholders, and whether there is duplication or waste that can be eliminated.

In states like Ohio, we do not have existing support programs and systems of technical assistance similar to what other states enjoy. The Specialty Crop Block Grant Program is one of the few tools we have to support our growers and better…

It is also believed that Iran is pursuing the exploration of uranium in Venezuela, an obvious ingredient necessary for Iran's continued development of nuclear weapons.

This is a no-brainer. We really need to get on with these free trade agreements.

I echo your sentiments that it is failed foreign policy, failed economic policy, and failure with our friends down in Latin America.