Ted Poe: “It is democracy. I think it is a good thing.”

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.

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.

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.