Ted Poe

During the long, dark, lamentable days of World War II, Serbians and Americans forged a bond in a secret mission that remained classified for almost 60 years. What was known as Operation Halyard became the largest rescue operation of…

The North Korean regime is not content simply with controlling these camps.

I thank the gentleman for yielding and for filing this amendment. Mr. Chairman, the VA has been using taxpayer dollars to have experiments on dogs. It is hard to believe that would occur in our culture today. I have had three Dalmatians…

Little Kim and his cronies have absolutely no concern for human life and decency.

Hezbollah is a threat to them--that they are not, as my friend, Mr. Sherman said from California, a political organization.

I support this reauthorization of the North Korean Human Rights Act. I commend my colleague, the gentlelady Ros-Lehtinen, for her work.

The people of that country live in a life of hopeless slavery and they are denied nearly all the basic human rights.

The people of North Korea suffer on a scale not imaginable anywhere in the world today.

If we look around the world there is no greater violator of human rights than North Korea.

Sitting a mere 20 feet away from the man that raped and trafficked her daughter, Jennifer waited anxiously in the courtroom as the judge prepared to announce the sentence. The amount of pain and turmoil this criminal inflicted on her…

Last Friday night, an Israeli family sat down for Shabbat dinner to celebrate the birth of a new grandchild, but a 19-year-old Palestinian terrorist put an end to this joyous occasion. The terrorist brutally attacked the Salomon family…

I thank the chairman, and I also thank the ranking member for their work on this legislation. Mr. Speaker, I have spoken to our military leaders, and they said that the biggest threat to the United States is North Korea. Strategic patience…

Today I was joined by some Members of Congress, along with other Americans, in taking a stand for the First Amendment right of freedom of expression. We stood across the street from the Turkish Embassy, where, a few weeks ago, Turkish…

As long as we are, you know, buying 150 billion--selling $150 billion worth of arms to the Saudis, they are not going to pay a whole lot of attention to western criticism.

And I urge you to meet with the new ambassador, and I urge you to sit down with him or her, whoever it is, and pressure them, and the new religious freedom ambassador.

And they are not only used in Saudi Arabia but they are used in other places in the world, including in the United States, as Congressman Wolf has stated; is that right?

If we take Ms. Shea's recommendation, we tie defense contracts to Saudi Arabia with the repairing of their textbooks, that may get somebody's attention.

So that is nine grades. That is almost a generation of students that they furnished the textbooks to that are still receiving this, in my opinion, violation of human rights.

The two bipartisan bills today before us, H.R. 425 and 1196, address dangerous issues: Terrorists and foreign fighter travel.

Mr. Zeldin's important bill, H.R. 1196, the Counterterrorism Screening and Assistance Act of 2017 will increase U.S. engagement with partner nations and increase the capacity to screen and prevent foreign fighter travel.

Like I said earlier, they are the arsonists but they are also the firefighters when it comes to terrorism.

You studied it. You have got a report there in your hand.

This will help prevent American citizens with evil designs to exploit the privilege of a U.S. passport to support the murderous cause of terrorism.

A new soccer stadium in St. Petersburg, a luxury apartment complex in Moscow, all brought to Russia by North Korean slaves. That is right. These slaves get almost no wages, no holidays, with little food or sleep. Little Kim not only…

The United States is finally holding China accountable for its longstanding human trafficking abuses. In the State Department's 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report, China was downgraded to the worst level: tier 3. This means that, in the…