Ted Poe

The United States has about 14 [nuclear submarines]. The Chinese have six.

100 years ago this month, American marines forged their legend as the world's most effective fighting force as they halted the German advance in France at the Battle of Belleau Wood. Less than 6 months later, World War I came to an end…

I think it is nonsense that we continue to send money to Pakistan with the promise they will do better.

Turkish President Erdogan will stop at nothing to spread instability and chaos across the globe. He is funding mosques around the world as a means of supporting Islamic extremism. These mosques are helping to indoctrinate an increasing…

I think we should cut off all aid to Pakistan until they come to the table and there is proof that they are not harboring terrorists in their own country and sending them across the border.

Someone has said that Afghanistan is where empires go to die.

Aren't we in the same situation? But yet, we say--and I am not arguing with the President's policy--we say we will be there indefinitely if need be to make sure that we obtain victory.

So are we, the United States, in the nation building business of Afghanistan?

So my point is we let the FBI determine not to tell us who the other three biased people were in this 500-page investigation that we all now have. Does that seem a little odd to you? I'm just asking your opinion.

Thank you, Mr. Horowitz, for being here. You probably think you are in the lion's den.

America's Peace Corps and those volunteers are our angels abroad. They represent the very best in America. Here with us today in the gallery, we have one of those brave volunteers, Ms. Sara Thompson. Since she was a little girl, Sara…

Our supposed Turkish allies are holding Americans hostage. At least two Americans, Andrew Brunson and Serkan Golge, are being held by the Turkish regime on false charges. Dictator Erdogan, an Islamist who has arrested thousands of Turks…

Turkey is moving away from democratic principles at a rapid rate.

I wanted to tap my foot and say amen to my friend, Mr. Keating, from Massachusetts, and his comments and his questions.

Ending the nuclear threat in North Korea is within our reach. The maximum-pressure campaign has demonstrated some clear successes in pushing North Korea to the negotiating table and pausing its nuclear and missile tests. This is serious…

The United States made the critical difference in the war to end all wars, World War I. The American doughboys turned the tide to victory in favor of the Allies in 1918, but victory was costly. More Americans gave their lives in the…

For most students here in the United States, recess is a time for recreation. For the pupils of Balkumari Primary School in Kathmandu, Nepal, recess is the only opportunity for them to get water. For decades, the school relied on a tiny…

In the cold, damp, dark rain of morning, thousands of young American soldiers sailed across the treacherous English Channel. The day was June 6, 1944; their destination, Normandy, France; the mission, not conquest, but liberation of…

On the rainy, dreary early morning of this past Sunday, at 1:56 a.m., June 3, a bright beam of hopeful light burst through the darkness. Her name is Emerson Ryan Foote. June 3 is also the birth date of her mother, my former chief of staff…

Recently, Officer Rogelio Santander of the Dallas, Texas, police department was responding to an ordinary call: a thief at a Home Depot. As Officer Santander and his colleagues attempted to arrest the outlaw, the crook pulled out a pistol…

I commend the administration for its bold decision. It was a bad deal. It's a worse deal now.

Most recently, they have purchased or received S-400s from Russia, missiles--which violates sanctions by the United States on Russia.

We can develop it, produce it, send it across the ocean, and sell it to them and they can buy it cheaper than they can drill it themselves.

The conversation was about getting LNG from the United States to India.

I recently met with the Speakers of the House of Ukraine and Moldova and Georgia, and they are working together to move more to the West, to democracy, et cetera.