Thank you. I realize my time is expiring and appreciate the indulgence, Mr. Speaker. It should be clear, though, the way to deal with Iran is not through weakness. If they won't shut down the nuclear proliferation, we have got to shut them…

If you go back after the surge that was ordered by President Bush, and before that, things weren't going well. General Petraeus told us we need a surge. We got a surge and all of a sudden things are going much better in Iraq. They're going…

I appreciate so much those wonderful points that were made. It is weakness that gives a recruiting tool, the joy among jihadists to realize we told them, close Gitmo. It's a nice place if you're going to be held somewhere as a prisoner. We…

We heard the President--now the President--say back in a debate with Hillary Clinton in 2008, ``That's what I will do in bringing all the parties together, not negotiating behind closed doors, but bringing all parties together, and…

You have done an extraordinarily good case of just laying out the facts as they were found.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, just briefly.

It is cruel and unusual to make me sit here for such a long period of time.

I appreciate Mr. Johnson's comments.

I wish I could tell you that we think that far ahead like you do, but we just do not give it that kind of thought.

you say you think the government people think, but again the problem is when there is an ethical violation, you fix that.

We are taking up some matters here that clearly have past. Once again we will make our natural resources more difficult in some of these areas to procure, and it is really astounding.