Jeff Duncan

We are not going to give Guantanamo Bay back, not as long as I have a vote in the United States Congress.

You can get off the State Sponsors of Terrorism list if you quit sponsoring terrorism, if you quit providing illicit arms to North Korea outside of the embargo.

We have now, I believe, abandoned that by sending a message to Latin American leaders that suppressing civil liberties is no longer primarily a concern of the United States.

Our policy toward Latin America has emphasized democracy, human rights, and constitutional government.

Please don't disarm United States Marines ever again. That was wrong.

My bill is entitled The SAFE Act, and it requires that manufacturers install deployable recorders on all aircraft ordered after January 2017.

This is an issue that I have been interested in for a long time.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for calling this hearing, and thank you for your very supportive comments about my legislation.

It seems a shame to me that this is a violation of Federal criminal law, and a lot of people just slough it off

Non-citizen voting is a criminal offense under 18 U.S. Code Section 611, and a removable offense in INA Section 212

Every time some Federal agency messes up, the first thing they say, they say they are underfunded.

Federal spending has gone way up, and all the Federal law enforcement agencies have greatly expanded over that time.

In that time that I have been in Congress, when I first came here, the national debt was less than $3 trillion.

I have been here 26 years. I have served on four different committees.

In a post-Snowden environment, where I believe the reason Germany was slow to inform the French or the Belgians was because of intelligence sharing.

I am concerned with the whole Schengen open travel, open border region and visa waiver and the ability of foreign fighters to flow to this country.

I would say that al-Qaeda, ISIS, al-Qaeda in all of its elements, AQAP, AQ MINA, Boko Haram, al-Shabaab, Abu Sayyaf--all these terrorist groups are still active, right?

Well, I'll tell you this: I don't have much time left, but years ago a hospital administrator in a small town in Tennessee, he told me, he said--he said if you don't have hospitals, you don't get doctors, and if you don't get doctors, you…

Before signing on to increased Pentagon spending to its highest level ever, Congress should insist on a serious effort to identify and address wasteful spending by the Pentagon.

I just want to say, Mr. Dodaro, I think you do a very good job, and I appreciate the work the GAO does.

What was negotiated in this? Freedom of speech? Freedom of religion? Economic freedom? Freedom of assembly and protest?

I think you were surprised over the Cuba talks and you weren't brought in or read into it until late in the discussions.

If trade and lifting the sanctions is seen as a cure-all of foreign policy for the Obama administration with regard to oppressive regimes like Cuba, then why did the administration impose more sanctions on Venezuela the very same week as…

I remain deeply skeptical of the Obama administration's unilateral Cuba policy shift.

I want to associate myself with your remarks and those of the gentlelady from Florida, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, emphasizing my deep concern for the President's lack of transparency.