Ted Poe: “So he doesn't mean it when he says he wants to eliminate the United States from the face of the Earth?”

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

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.

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