Ted Poe: “I think that is an important point, strengthen democratic institutions--to develop stronger adherence to the rule of…”

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.

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

Well, I think they should be listed. I think we are having some problems with our representation of the U.S. in Baghdad, though, and how they are cozy up to Iranian proxies.