David Cicilline

The Fiscal Year 2017 request of $7.17 billion for the region is an increase of almost 9 percent over Fiscal Year 2015 enacted levels.

I am very proud to be the co-chair of the Congressional Peacekeeping Caucus, which I formed with my colleague Adam Kinzinger.

When Congress passes a law, as it did in the Homeland Security Act, directing the Department to establish priority--enforcement policies and priorities, it is telling the Administration it is your responsibility to establish priorities.

The President's implementation of the ACA and his implementation of the immigration laws exercises discretion in ways that all previous Administrations have done

The majority in the House has on more than 60, 6-0, occasions, voted to repeal this law, but to no avail

The principal reason why these programs are necessary is because this Congress has repeatedly failed to take any action to fix our Nation's broken immigration system

These programs are commonsense solutions to our broken immigration system that has divided families for decades

The President has not violated any constitutional limitations on the exercise of his executive authority

The DAPA priorities are just what Congress has directed and endorsed and quite appropriately so.

Development assistance is not a gift but it is a strategic investment in our national security and our health and economic well-being

It sounds as if you think that is problematic and that, in fact, the real answer is a substantial increased investment in the intelligence capability

So you have, in fact, sort of already contemplated other ways in which you could make this information available in this case that would not have those sorts of broader implications?

There are risks in developing this software that have been articulated very well during this hearing, and indeed, there are risks associated with an inability to access critical information.

So do you agree, Director Comey, that if there is authority to be given to do what you're asking, that that authority has to come from Congress?

But in addition to that, you said repeatedly that the government doesn't have the ability to do this already.

But don't you think it's hard to even imagine how a court ultimately enforces that, because you have to sort of get into the head of the engineers to figure out did they actually comply with what the government order is directing them to…

Thank you, Director Comey, for your service to our country. Thank you for being here today and for the outstanding work of the men and women at the FBI.

I think the United States is not responding in ways that we ought to be to our global responsibility as reflected in the budget overall and I think that we can and should be doing more.

I'm very concerned about the deteriorating state of the rule of law and adherence to human rights in Egypt.

But Mr. Bitkower, I think it is very clear that most of us on the Committee recognize that there is an important role for Congress to play in this.

If we think about regulatory issue and job loss, there is no question that the most significant impact was the regulatory failure that led to the Great Recession.

I take very seriously job loss.

We have the responsibility to be certain that it is being implemented properly and we prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power.

I want to just focus for a moment on the effort to address the issue of the terrorist financing of ISIL.

Erdogan's decision to abandon the peace process with the PKK and undertake a harsh crackdown against Kurds, including civilians, is extremely disturbing.