I think the future is in the hands of the new, younger visionary Congolese that want to see the country grow with its resources, rather than a few people who still want to keep the old system going.

Please keep a very, very stern eye on our tax dollars as if that money were coming out of your individual pockets, please.

We have recently deployed about 100 military advisors that could cross between Uganda, Rwanda, and the Congo to advise--maybe they could get involved in other things as well.

I would hope that we would more than suggest that this man be punished for the crimes that he has committed in the name of humanity.

Thank you, Chairman. Mr. Speaker, I recently coauthored a letter with my colleagues, Representative Sandy Adams and Representative Trey Gowdy, concerning this very issue, and I'd like to read just a paragraph: ``As of October 4, 2011, the…

I have seen firsthand what this drug does. If it doesn't kill our children, it makes them suicidal; it makes them incredibly violent. And I still get calls, as a former prosecutor, from hospitals and emergency service personnel telling me…

But if I might interrupt you, how are you going to measure whether we are making any improvements on curtailing corruption over there?

How can I justify to my people in the Tenth Congressional District of north central Pennsylvania that we are going to spend billions of dollars more in this Iraqi Government and my people are losing their jobs?

Well, at this point I am not convinced to support any legislation that would send any more money over to Iraq.

There is no indication at this point. And perhaps you can help me with this rhetorical statement that there have been no plans for Iraq to pass back anything that we have spent over there.

How can we continue to fund a government that works under that premise where they are granting their own corrupt government officials immunity from prosecution from stealing?

Perhaps we should ask the prime minister if he wants to keep these programs in effect over there to account for the money that has been missing.

I will call the Chairman of this committee, Peter King, to absolutely make certain we had everything we needed.

Is there a possibility that if I can get all my emergency services people together in the county...

Would you mind working with me personally on that project?

What do we do about eliminating or curtailing the regulation that we have to go through, that a typical small business owner or homeowner has to go through to secure these permits?

Do we have the money at the Federal level within the Army Corps of Engineers and Homeland Security at FEMA to do what needs to be done not only in Pennsylvania?

I have been in Congress for almost 11 months now, and believe me, there is enough waste in agencies and departments that haven't been efficient or effective for the last 40 years.

Because we know we are going to have disasters--floods and hurricanes and earthquakes and fires--and we are not going to stop that, but we can mitigate our losses.

Listen, I am a conservationist. I want to protect the environment.

I am proud of our record in my county and in the Middle District of Pennsylvania to combat racial profiling, because we follow the crime.

I take issue with your statement about prosecutors overcharging.

one of the main goals that I tried to achieve and my staff tried to achieve was to seek justice--not to put people in prison but to seek justice.

According to Secretary of State Colin Powell, 2008 report, UNFPA supplied cars and computers to China to carry out their population control policies.

In dealing with Taiwan, we must work to emphasize the shared values that induced us to become a defender and advocate for Taiwan in the first place: Human rights, democracy, strong market economies, and freedom.