Ted Poe: “Are any of you aware of so-called secret side deals that we are just now learning about?”

Thank you for ensuring that children are protected as part of PEPFAR reauthorization, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Indefinitely might be a fair answer. Would you say that?

I have had the privilege to serve on the Foreign Affairs Committee. My district stretches--or used to stretch--all the way to the Texas-Louisiana border, where the Speaker is from. Some say that is why I was on the Foreign Affairs…

The First Amendment is first for a reason. It is the most important right we have as Americans and at the very core of who we are. Without the First Amendment, freedom of religion, free speech, freedom of the press, freedom in assembly…