Ted Poe: “Thank you all for being here.”

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

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

I think we are in for a long duration of Iranian terrorist activities throughout the world.

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.