Ted Poe

They are working together. One has nuclear capability; the other has weapons.

I thank the gentleman for having this Special Order. Mr. Speaker, let me bring an additional perspective to the importance of local broadcasters, TV, radio. I live down on the gulf coast. We call where I live in my district ``hurricane…

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It was in the cold, dark, damp, moldy walls of a beat-up old Spanish mission that was already 100 years old at the time. He was a 27-year-old lawyer from South Carolina and also from Alabama. He was the commander of 187 volunteers from 13…

He was only 37 years of age--a father, husband, community leader. He was Houston's Fire Captain Dwight Bazile. Captain Bazile, known as B.B. to his fellow firefighters, was helping to put out a fire at a duplex when he suffered cardiac…

This week we learned that three British school girls between the ages of 15 and 16 left their families and have gone to fight with ISIS in Syria. How were they recruited to join? Well, apparently through social media. And they are not…

We would have never allowed New York Times to take out an ad for the Nazis to recruit during World War II.

I define them as radical Islamic terrorists.

My opinion is they do this in the name of their radical Islamic religious beliefs.

The brutality of ISIL truly knows no bounds and this cancer continues to metastasize throughout the region.

There is not a comprehensive strategy to defeat ISIS.

I worry that this policy is not going to be a victorious one.

We need to ask what comes next--who fills the physical space, the ideological space and the cyber space.

I think that the Shi'ite alliance, led by Iran, ... is more dangerous and more deadly than ISIS.

We can contain ISIS. We can work for its eventual destruction.

Of course, America calls out for the immediate destruction of ISIS.

What I would argue is at least as equal a danger, has done everything possible to avoid America taking military action.

I am pleased that the President has formally requested that Congress act on an authorization for use of military force against ISIS.

If we think we can remake the Middle East in our own image, we are certain to incur incredible American casualties.

They have killed far more Americans, starting with the Beirut Marines back in the 1980s.

I am greatly concerned, and I do not trust that negotiating partner on the other side.

It is imperative that we keep these facts... in mind during the ongoing nuclear negotiations with the Iranian regime.

Talking is fine. You don't make peace with your friends; you make peace with your enemies.

My point today and, Mr. Chairman, I think what this hearing will show is that Einstein would clearly call it insanity after 36 years of consistently getting the same result from approaches to Iran to believe that this round of negotiations…

These Shia militias that Iran supports, trains, and resources are much more capable than Iraq's own army.