Ensuring the safety and security of the American people is a continuous responsibility and of utmost importance.

the potential, the possibility of an act of terror happening on U.S. soil from someone that comes from Iraq or Syria is real.

keeping Americans safe should be our No. 1 priority.

the safety of our citizens must be our No. 1 priority.

the refugee resettlement program should be paused, not only for those coming in from Syria, but from any country with strong ties to terrorism.

I rise during this Christmas season to speak about a public-private partnership that creates real impact in the communities I represent: Meals on Wheels. Today, a national army of 2 million volunteers is preparing and delivering about 1…

I would encourage anyone that hasn't traveled to Erbil to meet with the Kurdish leaders and understand these noble people, I would encourage that because we need to arm them.

The ability to speak openly without censure or fear of reprisal is a hallmark of free peoples everywhere, and the freedom of the press is critical to sustaining Democracy and the Rule of Law.

I commend Mr. Sherman for pushing this, and will support all these measures.

I assure the ranking member we aren't going to take our eye off Cuba, and look forward to continuing to look into that.

I traveled for the first time to Argentina in 2002, March, early April. The day before I got there, they devalued their currency, went from 1 to 1, to 3 to 1 with the dollar.

And those people are not going to lay down their arms, and they are not going to integrate, and they are not going to be willing to accept jobs.

This legislation is a step in the right direction. The changes that I like particularly to the Visa Waiver Program are a requirement to share counterterrorism information with the United States and that all visa waiver countries must…

I thank the chairman for yielding. We have talked a lot in the last couple of weeks about the visa waiver program, visas in general, and Syrian refugees. Let me remind this body and the American people that 49 percent of all illegals in…

The State Department now doesn't take the Iranian activity, Hezbollah's activity in the Western Hemisphere much of a threat.

I wish President Obama took the threat of radical Islamic jihadists as seriously as he takes the pseudo science behind the manmade climate change threat. Folks, these EPA rules affect jobs and they affect the amount of money in the pockets…

As a Christian, I have compassion and sympathy for the refugees in Syria. In fact, I visited with many of them in a refugee camp in Jordan, a camp that held about 120,000 Syrian refugees. We are criticized for not having compassion on this…

I thank the chairman. I thank him for having this People's Night 2, so as to take the opportunity to speak to the American people about, really, what have become a lot of frustrations since they elected a Republican House and a Republican…

The energy opportunity in the U.S. Arctic territory is vast.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is a quality which guarantees all others.

I think the most profound statement that you made was when you are doing business with Cuba, you are not doing business in Cuba, you are doing business with Cuba. And Cuba equals Castro.

The unrelenting and merciless oppression of the Cuban people by a regime hostile to liberty is a direct rejection of the values we as Americans hold as sacred.

The government has purchased the majority of the media.

He is not a terrorist. He should be allowed his human and prisoner rights to be observed, and they are not.

We definitely hope so.