Ted Poe

I want to show the committee the reality of living as a political prisoner in Iran.

I don't know that we have ever had that many agree on anything, and that should be a sign not only to the American people, and the Iranian people, but the rogue government in Iran, that we mean business about sanctions.

The supreme leader took a heavy hand against his own people after the 2009 massive protest and the illegal government of Ahmadinejad took control.

He was killed because he was an American.

What happens in the Sahel is directly related to our regional interests and security here at home.

Since 2012, a coup in Mali, and the 2011 overthrow of Ghadafi in Libya, the security in the Sahel has gotten worse, not better.

I think Congress has a role in interpreting the Constitution as well.

I think that is what the Court, members of the Court to me are saying, which concerns me.

Communities, not just law enforcement, must play a central role in whether to purchase a drone.

There's a troubling pattern here in Washington. When wrongdoing occurs involving Federal Government employees, blame falls away from the White House and the wrong-doers get a pass. No one is held accountable. Exhibit A: Fast and Furious…

Early last year, I spoke with businesswoman Catherine Engelbrecht, also founder of True the Vote and King Street Patriots in Houston, Texas. True the Vote is a nonpartisan organization whose purpose is to train poll workers to uphold voter…

Copyright law is difficult. My friend and lawyer, Mr. Marino, is going through the copyright law.

The law has existed for 200 years, and it has been good. America is better because we have the concept of copyright.

I want to thank you and Chairman Goodlatte for holding this first of a whole lot more hearings.

When I went to the Soviet Union in the 1980s, the Communist leaders told me that they believed in and had a free press and they also had free speech. However, I also learned that Soviet law prohibited these freedoms when they jeopardized…

Well, I am giving you my opinion that the Justice Department lacks credibility and some of these departments because of the action by the Federal authority. So that is my opinion.

I am just asking you, do you think maybe that would help restore some credibility in your Department if you set that aside and said we are going to get a special prosecutor to clear this whole air and find out exactly what is going on in…

The Benghazi whistleblowers have spoken publicly: the administration failed before, during, and after the terrorist attack in Benghazi. Head of diplomatic security in Libya, Eric Nordstrom, testified his calls for more security before the…

Victor from Huffman, Texas, writes me this: I work. I pay my taxes. In order to earn that paycheck, I work on construction projects. Every morning we file into a job site like cattle. We are searched, scanned and tested. But the government…

Kara was in the third grade when the school notified her parents about her difficulty in processing words. Her speech pattern was different. It affected every aspect of her life, including her self-esteem. Kara's third grade teacher, Mrs…

Sunday is Mother's Day where we honor our Nation's mothers. My mom is still alive. I got to know my grandmothers, both of them, until they died in their nineties, and my three daughters all have children. But I want to talk about a mother…

``Benghazi happened a long time ago.'' ``What difference does it make?'' ``Let's get done with this, folks. I don't think anybody lied to anybody. I do not want to spend the next year coming up here talking about Benghazi.'' Mr. Speaker…

We have got to work on that problem, making sure they can come forward and testify, safely testify.

According to Mr. Myles, your organization, the Polaris Project, last year, you said or your Polaris Project said that in the whole United States, there are only 1,644 beds for trafficking children or trafficking victims.

This trafficking issue is a scourge. Unfortunately, my hometown of Houston, Texas is the center and hub of international trafficking into the United States.