Ted Poe

The goal of these targeted sanctions is to send a clear signal that Russian aggression against Ukraine comes at a price.

Despite its April 17th pledge to help de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine, Russia has done exactly the opposite.

I don't think--it is not now the time to be kowtowing to Putin.

I believe these actions should--we should understand that we have to reevaluate our agreements with the Russians because of their failure to abide by international law.

In my opinion, the Russians are not our allies. They are not our friends and we certainly can't take them for their word.

Is it going to be part of Ukraine or is it going to be part of Russia?

Maybe we should reevaluate giving money to countries that support Russian invasion. Just a thought.

Programs that work, let's maybe keep them. Programs that are not working, let's get rid of them.

Accountability is to me very important. How we spend taxpayer money.

I am not sure where all the money came from, or what accounts, but it is $6 billion that the State Department says we just can't find it.

This is about $400,000 and the State Department said, well, it could have been more, but we got a discount.

The State Department, I understand, has an arts division that buys the art for its Embassies.

I want to talk about money, taxpayer money that is spent through the State Department specifically, then through USAID.

The United States State Department is on an art spending spree. First, it spent $1 million for a granite statue at the London Embassy. It is modern art. It looks like a stack of bricks. Now it has spent $400,000 for a statue of a camel…

Thank you both for returning. I hope you had a good conversation while we were voting to save the country.

These bin-Laden documents should be publicly released. This would not harm U.S. national security in any way.

If groups like ISIS and al-Nusra are junior varsity I would hate to see what the varsity team looks like.

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 thank the gentleman for yielding time, and I thank him for having this Special Order regarding the dastardly crime of sexual assault. I also want to thank my friend Mr. Costa from California for his work. We serve as cochairs on the…

The head cheerleader in charge held a pep rally this week. Standing in front of a boisterous pep squad of bureaucrats from HHS and Democrats who support ObamaCare, the President declared his mission accomplished. However, not there and not…

A lady in my district wrote about the administration's new immigration enforcement policy--or, rather, the lack thereof. She is worried, and so am I. The government claims that it prioritizes deporting criminal aliens before all others who…

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…