Jeff Duncan

We should at least consider doing this to countries that aren't doing anything to increase religious freedom.

We also need to make sure that this money doesn't find its way to the hands of the dictators around the world that have been notorious for lining their own pockets with U.S. foreign aid.

I think we have a responsibility to be good stewards of the American tax dollars, and I believe that the majority of Americans would agree with this type of foreign aid.

I think we need to make sure that as good stewards of American tax dollars that the NGOs are doing with the money what they are supposed to do.

However, I am concerned that we are considering taking a transparent, reliable, accountable, and highly efficient program that has worked well for almost 60 years with strong bipartisan support and are replacing it with a black box program.

That sound terrible, to keep giving taxpayer money to companies and people that are actively supporting terrorists.

Well, I hope that we keep that in mind as this legislation progresses.

When they are too big to suspend or debar, it is a problem.

The more it is regulated, the more it ends up in the hands of a few big giants

To go out off the Atlantic coast and find out whether there are resources there, without any sort of hope, promise, or certainty that area is going to be opened up at some point in time?

Are you going to invest that money to just discover whether there might be a resource, oil or natural gas, in that area without any hope, promise, or understanding from the Government that area will ever be included in a future lease sale?

We are going to offer a lease sale in this area, and you are already producing out of that area.

I very much appreciate the great opening statements that you and Ranking Member Cummings have made.

It seems to me the only difference between a hatchery fish and a wild-born fish is the difference between a baby born at home and a baby born at the hospital.

This bespeaks a complete lack of balance in addressing the issue, and an ideological extremism that is utterly breathtaking in its scope.

I would certainly invite her to come to California's Central Valley, where the ESA has required the diversion, literally, of billions of gallons of water.

We want a super-abundance of these species, which, it seems to me, we can produce at far lower cost than the extensive and expensive measures required by ESA.

The excuse is because of a catastrophic decline in the salmon population on the Klamath.

There is an important and legitimate Federal role.

I consider myself to be the Republican cochair, and Jerry Nadler from New York to be the Democratic cochair.

People get the wrong idea. They think we all hate each other in Washington, and that is so untrue.

Part of the pullback is just to bring the forces in, build loyalty with the Mexican Government and do away with some of the corruption.

I think by using the word 'and,' you are putting two values, so to speak, in place that both have to happen in order for the sanction to kick in.

I want to thank you and the other members for the bipartisan effort on H.R. 850.

Speaker Pelosi was famously quoted as saying we would have to pass Obamacare before we could find out what was in it.