Ted Poe: “I think it has been a terrible mistake.”

One in four women will experience domestic violence during their life. Nearly three women are murdered by their spouses every day. This is violent America in our time. Violence in the family unit. These crimes affect the spouse, the…

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.

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

World War I ended 100 years ago. During the brutal, bloody war, thousands were killed in an area of France and Belgium called Flanders. ``In Flanders Fields,'' by John McCrae. In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on…