Tom Marino

The President has an opportunity... to let the rest of the world know and the good people of the world that we are going to stand by them.

I will certainly take this up when appropriate with the 27 other nations and have a frank discussion about this.

Now please bear in mind that our First Amendment to the Constitution here in the United States is very clear on freedom of speech.

The President has an opportunity...to let the rest of the world know and the good people of the world that we are going to stand by them.

It is very dangerous because you cannot reason with stupid, arrogant people, which is a deadly combination.

I had the opportunity to visit Israel last year, spent a couple of sessions in a group meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu and other officials.

I have run out of time? Would you like to put it in writing and get it to me, gentlemen, please?

I support the merger because the employees want it and because of the gentlemen sitting behind you in uniform took the time to be here.

I come from industry. I come from government. And there are individuals that just have to be cut loose when they are not performing their tasks.

But my point is this flag kept coming up, and you did not think that that was important enough to increase security.

However, this flag was pointed out to be affiliated with al-Qaeda terrorists who attack and kill United States citizens and other individuals around the world.

Something that was especially alarming to me in this DoD report was the mention that Ansar al-Sharia and other al-Qaeda groups in Libya have adopted the black flag, which symbolizes commitment to violent jihad.

In August 2012, prior to the Benghazi attack, the Library of Congress published a report on behalf of a division of DoD called 'Al-Qaeda in Libya: A Profile.'

Perhaps in the future, not only at State, but I hope in other departments, we do have someone that takes a look at these expenditures, and I would have rather seen over $10 million go toward our Embassies for protection.

Now, I appreciate the arts just as much as anyone else does, but who looks at these numbers?

I do have a concern about why for several days, particularly Ambassador Rice was out blaming this on a video.

I would never second guess any of our personnel on the ground in Libya.

The Obama administration refuses to engage in serious monetary sanctions against these countries

So maybe we do have to take this more, with more passion to the public to get our Government to respond to it.

I mean, they are not ignorant to these facts. I mean, it is very blatant. But they chose and choose not to do what should be done about this.

I think one recommendation I will say, because Africa is always a very bipartisan area, maybe you should consider passing a robust, more robust version of the Obama law here that you can push then to be applied because I am not sure why…

The U.S. Congress has always been at the forefront of certain watershed events in Congo and Africa.

I see we are at that point right now.

I want to share an experience I had touring the same areas that Lou did. And it was a family of six; they weren't able to be in their house. It was a blue collar family. It was half a double. They wouldn't even be able to sit on their…

Bush told Sharon that he, Bush, will use force to protect Israel.