Ted Poe

A sunset provision is bad for business, wouldn't you think?

The committee has passed, and the House has passed, and it is the law of the land that there will be an audit of foreign aid.

In this situation, government seizes the information without a probable cause warrant. Then they search the information to see how many times Bobby Oglethorpe maybe has violated other laws, and they do it without a probable cause warrant…

I support these bills put before us today. I would like to thank Chairman Royce and Ranking Member Engel...

It is the responsibility of Congress to set the privacy standard for Americans.

Before the government can go in and seize something and then search it on an American citizen that is incidental to the search on the target, the government should get a warrant for that conduct.

Its reckless methods and support for Assad the butcher destroyed any chance of Russia being an effective counterterrorism partner with us.

Moscow's actions in Syria has shown it is more interested in saving the brutal Assad regime than fighting ISIS.

We should not cooperate with Russia. We should communicate with them, but under no circumstances should we cooperate.

We must remember history. We must not abuse the Fourth Amendment. It is Congress' responsibility to protect the natural right of citizens' right of privacy. Get a warrant or don't make the search. And that is just the way it is…

Hezbollah is a terrorist organization, and wherever you look in the Middle East and you find trouble, you will find the IRGC and Hezbollah working together. These two agencies from Iran are the gestapo actors for the Iranian Ayatollah, and…

But let's take the politics, the decisionmaking, and the credibility--or lack of credibility--of the Justice Department in settling cases on behalf of the United States people, and take it away from the Justice Department and put it where…

An unnecessary and completely unwarranted government intrusion

I think we are dealing in, like I said, irrational optimism if we think anything different.

We need to take these people serious when they say that they want to eliminate Israel and they want to eliminate the United States.

So he doesn't mean it when he says he wants to eliminate the United States from the face of the Earth?

When the Iranians say, 'The Ayatollah says he wants to eliminate and destroy Israel,' do you believe that is rhetoric or do you believe that is the policy of Iran?

It's always been the case that you may not be interested in the Middle East, but the Middle East becomes interested in you at some point.

The ayatollah has made it clear that it's his goal to destroy Israel and then destroy the United States by any means necessary.

I personally think that there are many reasons why the United States needs to be involved in the Middle East.

The next time that opportunity comes for us to weigh in and possibly help influence that, hopefully it has a different outcome for the other Iranians who want to lead their country in a much better direction.

I would also suggest that we are propping up the wrong regime in Iran.

We have to figure out what more we can do with placing leverage back on the table in ways that we don't have right now.

I actually believe that the Iran nuclear deal is more so a blueprint for how Iran gets to a nuclear weapon than a blueprint for preventing them from having a nuclear weapon.

Sex trafficking, to me, is the national problem dealing with crime. We should focus this--this issue, I think, is so big that we should spend a lot of time going after these bad guys, and then they should do a lot of time in the do-right…