Ted Poe

The abuse by the intelligence services of specifically 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act must end or Congress must take immediate actions to stop FISA in its entirety.

I do believe we can have security and safety and we can have civil liberties in the United States.

I think it is incumbent for us to roll up our sleeves and figure this out.

If someone has been flagged for terrorism they should not be able to enter another country until that case has been closed.

The first step is not giving in to defeatism. We cannot accept this terror as the new norm.

I look forward to learning from the witnesses today on how the United States might be able to lend a hand to our European friends that are under attack and understand also the threat that faces us.

I think that is atrocious that that would ever occur.

We should be facilitating our support and our weapons systems to countries like Egypt that are fighting this threat to Western civilization.

We are not going to be providing weapons to countries like Pakistan that we are afraid will shoot down our own people.

We do a lot of good things, I think, this subcommittee and other Foreign Affairs subcommittees.

I personally think that the State Department should designate them as a sponsor of terror under Executive Order 13224.

H.R. 535, the Taiwan Travel Act, would allow the President and Vice President, Foreign Minister, and Defense Minister to come here.

We won't allow high Taiwanese officials to set foot in this city, our Nation's capital, Washington, DC.

The United States will stand with Taiwan.

I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for his comments, and now for his work on this issue of trafficking. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Yoho), another Ted here in Congress. Ted Yoho is serving Florida's…

I appreciate the gentlewoman being here and making such powerful comments. I yield to the gentlewoman from Hawaii (Ms. Gabbard). She is an Iraqi war veteran and a former member of the Hawaii House of Representatives. She is working…

I thank the gentlewoman for her comments. I also wanted to compliment her on her tenacious work of going after backpage.com and making that resource unavailable for those traffickers and those buyers. I want to commend her for that.

I thank the gentlewoman. I would like to ask a couple of questions if she doesn't mind. I know she has other appointments, but I wanted to ask her a couple questions. I would like to know how has the trafficking situation in her home State…

Tonight we have this Special Order, and we have several Members who are going to speak on this. The first Member who will speak is Representative Wagner. She has served in the House since 2013, and she has, herself, worked extensively on…

Erdogan thinks he can bring his crackdown on basic rights to the United States.

Turkey has been on a downward spiral under the aspiring dictator Erdogan.

I have introduced H.R. 478, the IRGC Terrorist Sanctions Act, and it would designate the IRGC for its terrorist activity under Executive Order 13224.

It is Iranian hands that have made IEDs, the explosively formed projectiles that tore through our Up-Armored Humvees in Iraq.

It is time that we consider, one, listing Pakistan as a state sponsor of terrorism; two, stop sending them U.S. aid; three, remove and revoke their status as a major non-NATO U.S. ally.

We should not accept sending money to a country that supports a terrorist group that kills Americans.