Ted Poe: “I want to make it clear that I do not question the motives or the interest that you have...”

I would just hope that we would, our Government, the United States Government, would designate these two organizations as terrorist groups, proxies of Iran.

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

We must not become complacent. We must continue to be vigilant until those ideologies that motivate violent extremism are cast into the dustbin of history.

The threat of terrorism remains a deadly challenge for us and our allies around the globe.