Jeff Duncan

This $100 billion figure that Mr. Mica referred to, I remember seeing that in an article I think last July.

Corruption in Afghanistan is now considered as great a threat to the country as the Taliban.

This whole thing is so ridiculous that it is just very, very sad.

I think that we've got a lot of important internal forces in Venezuela that are working for us.

I strongly support U.S. promotion of natural gas exports and advances in energy extraction and exploration technologies.

What should the U.S. strategy be?

It works for those that are in power and they just continue pushing those policies because it supports their positions and their economic benefit.

I share the chairman's opinion that this is Venezuela's 1776 moment where you have a people that are urging and really yearning to be free and have more self-governance.

This likened sort of to Marie Antoinette's 'let them eat cake' statement. It shows how out of touch Maduro is with just the basic needs of the Venezuelans.

I want to thank the minority for their work on this in conjunction with us.

I just wanted to applaud the gentlewoman from Hawaii because in countries where even they have the Rule of Law, if they don't have the courts that are necessary, or the non-corrupt courts necessary to prosecute then you see laws being…

It will be impossible to implement measures offered to Ukraine by the United States without a large-scale anti-corruptive strategy.

Ukraine is effectively bankrupt. It needs at least $20 billion in aid to stabilize its finances.

I would support that.

Russia wants to control the Ukraine territory. They have the ability to control the Ukraine energy sources.

The Parliament of Ukraine has yet to pass any law enabling new leaders of Ukraine to counteract corruption and change the system in their departments starting from now.

We are responsible to American taxpayers. We're supposed to be good stewards of that money.

This is urging them to pass legislation related to greater accountability for government officials.

Ukraine must not receive a single cent from foreign partners until necessary anti-corruptive legislative will be adopted.

I'm concerned that the U.S. Government is not prioritizing anti-corruption efforts in the Ukraine strongly enough.

I will withdraw the amendment.

If the U.S. has the ability to help the Ukraine become energy independent regardless of what those extraction techniques or exploration technologies are, they should be--we should be open to giving those to the Ukraine should they ask for…

This would give diversification for the sovereign nation of Ukraine to possibly go after its own resources, be energy independent.

We're not forcing this technology on Ukraine, they have asked for it.

According to a recent Forbes article, Ukraine could hold more than 40 trillion cubic feet of recoverable shell gas.