Steve Chabot

The rise to power of the Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist jihadist allies would threaten the peace and security in the region, particularly with regard to our closest ally in the Middle East, Israel.

When it comes to Egypt, had it not been for the leadership we showed, you might have seen a different outcome there.

While President Obama has reiterated a number of times his belief that the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of America's core interests in the Middle East, there has been a disconnect, I believe, between stated…

I think it was one of the most positive things that has been done in a long time, both to protect Israeli citizens and also to stabilize the whole region and to allow peace to at least have a chance.

One of the things that really troubles me... is the hoops that we on this committee have had to jump through.

He was excited about the opportunity to help a nation newly freed from decades of brutal dictatorship.

These events in Benghazi are absolutely tragic, no question about that.

I think it is appropriate for us to look into these matters.

I have no additional speakers on our side at this time, and so I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

Whatever Israel wants to do to protect the interest of their people which protects the interests of this country, I am there with them side-by-side, no holds barred.

I think Israel really did try to avoid civilian casualties here and should be commended for that.

Hamas and its anti-Israel allies have used this latest turmoil in the region to advance the much broader delegitimization of Israel strategy.

Hamas is a terrorist organization. Terrorism is what it does.

I find myself in complete agreement with the gentleman from Virginia.

I am very concerned that what we are seeing right now with this turmoil in the Middle East is the perception at least... that the U.S. is retreating from that region.

I think that too often, U.S. restraint, either in defending vocally its own interests or those of its allies, are perceived as weakness in the Middle East and especially by Iran.

The fact that you can--the Federal Government can take up to 55 percent of what a person has paid taxes on throughout their life when they die is just abhorrent, as far as I am concerned.

In the then-Republican-controlled House, we wanted to make these tax cuts permanent. That was our goal.

I would just like to conclude by saying that this is, I think, a very important program. Every parent I think is always afraid of that potential nightmare that one of their children goes missing. All of us that have senior grandparents…

I continue to reserve the balance of my time. We have no additional speakers at this time.

Yesterday President Obama held his first news conference since March, now that the election is over of course, and he defended Susan Rice, who clearly misled the American people.

The murderers who took the lives of Chris Stevens and his colleagues should take no pride in their cowardly acts.

I know it has not been easy to pry information out of this administration, and I want to commend you for being relentless in your efforts over the last 3 months to get to the facts surrounding the attacks on American outposts and personnel…

The surest path to economic, social, and educational prosperity in this country is to learn English.

The language that we have written into the Farm Bill now that prohibits the states from regulating the means of production of ag products as an important piece of language and legislation that must go into law