Ted Poe: “It seems to me that we are giving away the farm and the mineral right, as well.”

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.

The Iranians are spending at least $1 billion on causing terror in 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.