I am not justifying his behavior at all, but, I mean, I think it is more that than it is culturally anti-West.

Political choices have consequences, and Flint is the most dramatic in our generation.

If you're so passionate and sanctimonious about holding people accountable--and God knows we have done that in the 7 years I have been on this committee--then let's have Governor Snyder at this table explaining himself.

You had a reasonable expectation, did you not, that you could rely on the government to protect you and your family?

We need the pipes fixed in Flint. In fact, the Governor should write a check tomorrow for the $60 million that the mayor of Flint has asked for to replace the lead service lines.

This is a tragedy. It can not be fixed. But those who did this to Flint can stand up and make it right.

This was a State failure.

The State, to my point of view, my perspective, has a moral responsibility not to just apologize.

Flint, arguably, one of the worst municipal environmental tragedies in the modern era in the United States, and it was manmade.

The State of Michigan was responsible, as the ranking member said, has primacy for the enforcement of the lead and copper rule.

I would like all of you to have an opportunity if you wish, from the United States point of view, and I worry how much this causes friction in our relationship with Turkey.

I sometimes wonder on our committee, when we talk about Turkey, whether we can step back a little bit and look at context and attributes as opposed to looking for fault only.

Mr. Connolly. Mr. Chairman, if I might be allowed just two more points.

How worried should we be about that? And are there countervailing forces that can be looked to to try to redress what is, in fact, happening in Turkey?

I just wonder if he will indulge the panel to respond to that last point.

I mean, Syria sends Hafez al-Assad, was the Soviet Union's one client state in the region, and that goes back to 1970.

None of this is to whitewash real issues, but there is a context here. We want to make Turkey a more stable democratic state.

if you want to remove an existential threat to Israel, that is the way we did it.

the agreement, the nuclear agreement, is working. They are complying.

My narrative would be that this administration took up from the neglect and fecklessness of the previous administration with respect to Iran.

I encourage my colleagues to support this measure as well.

I thank my dear friend from New York, the distinguished ranking member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. I rise today in support of the North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act of 2016. I want to thank the chairman and ranking member…

Would you not agree that, in the terms or--in the context of export controls, controlling things, widgets, is easier than controlling thought processes and methods?

I've always been a skeptic about export controls, frankly. I mean, maybe good intentions, but we don't live in that kind of world anymore.

Amendment in the nature of a substitute to H. Res. 343 offered by the Honorable Gerald E. Connolly