Ted Poe: “What is the United States doing about the South China Sea?”

Thank you for chairing this committee for so many years. It has been a wonderful privilege to be here with you.

That means we are losing. We are losing. Complex means we are losing.

These groups must be called what they are--terrorists.

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…