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

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

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

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.

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

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 find myself in complete agreement with the gentleman from Virginia.

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

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 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…

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.

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

I thank the gentlelady for yielding and I thank her for her very strong support and leadership on this particular issue and on so many issues in this Congress. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this well-crafted legislation which…

I thank the gentleman for yielding and for his leadership in this area. Mr. Speaker, last week I became a grandfather for the first time. Seeing that defenseless little child for the first time reminded me just how precious life is and why…

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

Thank you, Madam Chair, for holding this very important hearing.

I would just ask you to please look into that matter and make sure your agency is doing everything possible to, again, protect our businesses here so that we can actually create jobs.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I really do appreciate the great leadership Chairwoman Ros-Lehtinen has shown on this issue and on so many issues around the world. I appreciate as well the great leadership of Mr. Berman, the ranking…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, the Supreme Court's unfortunate decision to uphold ObamaCare doesn't mean it's the right thing for this country. It's not. It was bad public policy when it was forced upon the American…

Well, I disagree with those points that I just made.

I would hope that here in the House Foreign Affairs Committee we maintain a tradition of straightforward intellectual pursuit.