I really do not see the Administration as being particularly transparent.

Ladies and gentlemen, if it is a policymaking tool, it needs authorization by the policymaking body, the U.S. Congress.

If we talk about love and forgiveness and following God's path, and we understand that we need to take the log out of our own eye before we try to take the speck out of somebody else's eye, that is a lesson that Christ taught us.

I am very, very concerned about the Spratly Islands and China's incursion there.

I just appreciate the opportunity to make a couple of statements.

I am willing to acknowledge he was radicalized in some way.

If we want to pay for this CVE side of DHS, how about end their involvement in climate change and National security threats and focus on the threats that are real after 9/11?

We need a mistake-of-law defense.

It has gotten out of hand.

Overcriminalization has become a national plague.

I lost my father April 14 of this year to Alzheimer's. It is a terrible disease. I watched how it affected him. I know that there are millions of Americans and American families that are dealing with Alzheimer's. The 21st Century Cures Act…

Government does not work because it was not designed to. He said there's no incentive to save money, so much of it is squandered.

I strongly agree with Mr. Mica in talking about how ridiculous the waste of all this is, the excessiveness of all this is.

This notion that man-made climate change is happening is, I think, wrong.

I am a man-made-climate-change denier, but I do believe the climate is changing.

I think your priorities are wrong at the Department of Homeland Security.

We all want to see these problems resolved and peace achieved.

It has claimed over 220,000 lives and displaced more than 5 million people.

I also ask unanimous consent to enter into the record a letter from Senator Marco Rubio, chairman of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, to Mr. Aronson, dated February 26, 2015.

Colombia has been a leader in creating the Pacific Alliance to further the economies of the free trade trading bloc.

I would encourage the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs to take a closer look at the Iranian activity directly or indirectly through its proxies in the Western Hemisphere.

Are you aware of USAID's, anything that they are doing in Colombia for alternative crop production, training these farmers?

You know how difficult it is to manually eradicate a coca tree. You can't just machete these things. You need to pull them up by the roots.

the United States is not meddling in the affairs of Colombia, but we are very interested in seeing a peaceful solution of this.

Colombia and the United States have been fierce friends and allies for a very long time.