Ted Poe: “We refocus on the importance of the role of women in solving this problem”

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.

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

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