Ted Poe: “It is important that the rest of the world keep these two areas of the world in constant conversation.”

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

I think the country is better because of your leadership over the last 6 years.

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

That means we are losing. We are losing. Complex means we are losing.