Steve Chabot: “The U.S. needs to become much more engaged with this region.”

The breadth and depth of information about nearly every American held by private companies is breathtaking and can easily be abused if adequate safeguards are not in place.

I urge all colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

We've been pushing this for a long time, it's the Tropical Forest and Coral Reef Conservation Reauthorization Act.

Every riot or act of violence or threat thereof taking place anywhere in this nation, whoever is responsible for it, is unconscionable and we on this side, Republicans, we reject it; we condemn it.