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

It is the final showdown scene, and while there are no swinging doors or clicking of spurs, eerie signs and sounds of silence or dust swirling behind me, I stand here today in the people's House to speak probably for the last time. If they…

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

It is my opinion and the opinion of others that Iran is trying to make Iraq a puppet state of Iran.