there has to still be accountability and then, secondly, there has to be expiation.

There aren't words to describe the horror of the Holocaust.

Isn't it just as flimsy to cite a resolution for a different time, a different environment, a different challenge 13 years ago?

One might suggest it is time to return to that subject and the meaning of those two adverbs because I think there are organizations that I do not think anybody in the public would agree are primarily or exclusively social welfare…

I thank my dear friend from California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of this amendment. The President has laid out a bold and decisive strategy to lead a multilateral operation designed to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL. This…

Specifically in 2011, we passed the Kate Puzey Volunteer Protection Act, to which I just referred, requiring the Peace Corps to establish a restricted reporting system giving volunteers the option to report sexual assaults on a…

We are sitting here watching this thing burn down and we are milling around with all these foolish policies.

In January you testified before this committee and raised concerns about access to Peace Corps information.

Due to the Peace Corps' interpretation of that act, the agency, however, withheld from the IG certain personal information about victims as well as sexually explicit details about sexual crimes.

We Democrats would like to see that here in our House of Representatives as well.

I thank my friend. We, as elected officials, have to recognize the valuable role science must play in making good public policy--not anecdotes, science. I think Neil deGrasse Tyson said it best when he said: ``The good thing about science…

I thank my good friend from Florida. I listened to my friend from Utah and I heard him make reference to fact that he thought he might be spending some time in purgatory. I just want him to know that I rise in support of him. I want to…

What we are witnessing in Iraq and Syria is a form of genocide.

I find myself in firm agreement with yourself and with the ranking member, your opening statements.

I cannot accept the gratuitous potshot at the administration as if this President and the administration are responsible for what has transpired in Libya.

I was proud to be one of those four.

Its benefactors need to cut off its financial pipeline right now.

These are men, women, children and infants who are for all practical purposes locked up in camps and denied healthcare and adequate nutrition.

The United States must remain engaged if we are ever going to end the cycle of violence in the Middle East.

If the Burmese authorities want to have a more advanced relationship with the United States... it should be linked to the concrete reforms that we expect of civilian rule.

Let us not pretend that this is a democratic process.

The recent violence in the Gaza does show that there is no substitute for a long-term committed, sustained peace process between Israel and its Palestinian neighbors.

I urge passage of the chairman's bill and once again, thank him as well as the Democrats and Republicans on this committee for moving it forward.

The whole world knows this isn't as simple as it sounds.

He decided to just use it for his own political gain.