Joe Wilson

Given the current threats facing our Nation and the budgetary pressure place on the Department of Defense, accountability is paramount and every dollar counts.

One of the objectives of this subcommittee is to bring attention to matters that impact on the overall readiness of the Department of Defense.

It is time that we enact meaningful restrictions on tourist travel to totalitarian North Korea. I urge the passage of this legislation.

This hearing will come to order.

It's simple. We are winning. They are losing.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who I hold in high regard, once suggested that you are entitled to your own opinions but not entitled to your own facts.

The key thing is that we are operating under legal authority properly for our military.

It is incredible what the American people face and our ally, Israel, simultaneously.

Vandenberg famously said that politics should stop at the water's edge.

Over and over again we see them using civilians as human shields, targeting civilians, as we saw again yesterday--incredibly enough, mass murder again in Kabul.

We should always be mindful that we are dealing with illegal enemy combatants who are not in uniform who will be placing American families at risk.

I also agree with the comments of Chairman Ed Royce that any effort to repeal the 2001 authorization for use of military force without having more effective replacement that does not place arbitrary restrictions on the present military…

I particularly appreciate the efforts that you are expressing today.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank each of you for being here today on this very important issue.

I am grateful to support the bills in today's markup.

The bills before the subcommittee today do just that by working in a comprehensive manner to address both the causes of foreign terrorist fighters and their movements.

We should also have penalties for American citizens who join the fight against freedom, democracy, and human dignity.

I think it provides flexibility for States to do whatever they think makes sense for them in their local context while providing sufficient guardrails to protect vulnerable populations and subgroups.

I know that my view is that they work best for our students.

What a meaningful and fulfilling life you help young people achieve, so thank you for what you do.

Thank you, Chairwoman Virginia Foxx, for your extraordinary leadership providing for this hearing today.

As I served in the State senate, now Congress, I represent a district, Lexington 1.

The House of Representatives, with the bipartisan leadership of Chairman Ed Royce and Ranking Member Eliot Engel, has a long history of promoting women's economic empowerment in developing countries.

Your first speech was to condemn Russian aggression in Ukraine.

We are so proud of your efforts to reverse, as Congressman Zeldin has so correctly pointed out, the anti-Israel policies.