Ted Poe actually said...

"Doesn't this put an economic disadvantage to American airlines' companies that we have a facility where you all are working, where American airlines cannot fly in and out?"

"I said it on the House floor that this was a terrorist attack."

"It does make a difference. It makes a difference to the victims' families who want justice."

"We must respond to any type of violent attack that occurs against Americans no matter where it is when it is a terrorist attack."