Ted Poe

Al-Qaeda has not been reduced to a few old men hiding somewhere in Pakistan.

Education and training on human trafficking is critical for us on a worldwide basis to stop this criminal conduct, this scourge.

I think we need to ship it because it will create tax revenues for this country and I think America can do it better than anybody else.

We can't use oil or the petroleum products as a strategic diplomatic tool if we do not update our export oil policies.

If we are taking down the walls that we have that are right now up along our coast to exports whether it is LNG, crude oil, we are sending a pretty strong signal to those around the world that we are going to play as an energy superpower…

I believe the President should also stop blocking that long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline which would create, I think all of us agree, at least 20,000 direct jobs.

U.S. crude exports could also lower the price at the pump.

Lifting the ban is what would actually protect domestic consumers.

We need to reinforce that. I think we have a responsibility as the leader of the free world to promote freedom much more actively.

The OAS has failed to be a venue for the people of Venezuela, for the people of Cuba, the people of the hemisphere to express their concerns about the lack of democracy and the violations of human rights occurring in our hemisphere every…

I believe, Mr. Chairman, the inmates are, clearly, running the asylum in the OAS.

Maria Corina sought to denounce the human rights abuses occurring in Venezuela but this broken institution, led by a cowardly Secretary General, chose to side with Maduro instead.

The Castro brothers continue to aid and abet the Maduro regime just as they have aided and abetted the FARC guerillas in Colombia.

I am extremely worried about our lack of attention to the many threats to democracy in our own hemisphere.

Maduro and the Government of Venezuela need to address the grievances of its people through dialogue, and respect freedom of expression and assembly as the basic human rights and principles of a democratic society.

I am really disgusted, I am, by the lack of any kind of clear vision or policy in the Western Hemisphere.

People yearning for freedom are looking to the U.S. for our leadership in defense of liberty, but instead, this administration is offering solar panels through costly USAID projects.

Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Department of State's Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a detailed, quantitative…

He marched in. We watched, and dealing with Putin he has started Cold War II.

I think we are living in a fantasy land if we think that the bully-bear Putin wants to be nice to the neighbors that surround him.

Children should never be in a position in life where they feel like nobody is going to look for them.

We need to solve that problem, that overall problem. I mean, that is the big picture.

In a country like this, we can only provide 30 beds for trafficked boys that are domestic trafficked boys?

But the bill that the Chairman has been gracious to talk about that I have sponsored goes after the demand and gives them equal punishment to the trafficker...

We end up allowing these victims to carry the shame that does not belong to them.