Ted Poe: “Someone has said that Afghanistan is where empires go to die.”

I think they are not doing their job to fight terrorism because the terrorists come in from Pakistan into Afghanistan.

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

The Iranians are spending at least $1 billion on causing terror in the world.

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