it is my belief that we and all other responsible nations have a moral imperative to ensure that Bashar al-Assad is removed from power as soon as possible.

Sir, if I may. I think that what unites the three of us at the table is, and I think what actually meets your mandate of us not simply bickering is that none of the three of us is urging doing nothing.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate that, and I really appreciate Chairman Graves making it possible for so many of us who care about small business in this country this evening to take a little time to talk about how important…

One of the other issues that we haven't covered too much here, and let me talk about this very briefly, is the impact that the high cost of energy, gasoline in particular, what kind of difficulty that's causing small businesses across the…

I thank the gentleman. Reclaiming my time, the gentleman mentioned the Buffett rule. And maybe I'll talk about that as well very briefly here because I think the gentleman from Arizona did a great job in showing that this is really all…

This has not worked, it will not work, and it should be reversed.

Intellectual Property in the United States is responsible for spurring new industry, developing useful technology, and creating jobs.

Having been one of the founding chairs of the Congressional Taiwan Caucus...

Trade of counterfeit goods has a negative impact on our national economy.

I think the fact that the Taiwanese Government has decided to move itself in the direction of the criminalization of politics is unfortunate as well.

It's critical that CBP officers be able to communicate valuable information with rightsholders.

the business of this country is generally conducted in English and that has been accepted for a long time.

We need to do everything humanly possible to take care of those people, and make sure that they have the best quality of lives.

I think that we ought to do some soul searching, all of us Americans who are engaged in policy.

I did not listen to Gary Ackerman, I went along with it, and the President, it was after 9/11.

I think it was a lackadaisical effort that was made in order to attain that permission of Iraq for our folks to be there without being prosecuted, et cetera.

I find a little bit of an inability on both sides of this issue looking back.

I would argue this administration did that to maintain, to keep a campaign promise, and that was a terrible mistake in my view.

Maliki's actions have been widely interpreted as part of a brazen effort to consolidate his power by weakening Sunni politicians whom he considers to be threats.

I am sick and tired of also hearing that all of these casualties that were caused by America's intervention.

the situation on the ground has, in my view, degenerated significant, in no small part due to a sectarian political crisis which has been triggered by the actions of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

I would like to thank my colleague, the distinguished chairman of the Judiciary Committee (Mr. Smith of Texas) for yielding the time. He explained it much better than I can, but I'll take a stab at it myself. H.R. 4086 is really a…

He was one of the people on this committee that we are clearly going to miss.

I actually had a similar path getting here as Don.

The current crisis surrounding the December 29 raids on several NGOs are deeply, deeply disturbing.