That is of concern to a number of us on this committee.

I haven't heard anything from your agency. Not a word in a year and the intent of the legislation is to be helpful.

I thank my colleague, Mr. Royce, the distinguished chairman of our committee, once again for his bipartisan collegiality in the workings of our committee, especially on this important piece of legislation. I want to also rise in strong…

The idea that the problem is on the Democratic side of the aisle with respect to supporting six day delivery is simply not correct.

It is such a refreshing and hopeful experience to come to this committee and see how work is conducted in a professional and bipartisan manner.

Let me just say, Mr. Chairman, that I have the utmost respect--and he knows it--of my friend from Oklahoma. No sarcasm was meant. But he might forgive me for being shocked at a speech I took certainly at face value about the need for full…

I think this legislation is important not only for what it does in tightening sanctions against that regime, but in sending the strongest message I hope in a unanimous bipartisan basis by this Congress that we will stand shoulder to…

This legislation, I think, is an important symbol by the Congress that we are not going to stand idly by and allow the depredations and the unspeakable brutality of a regime that would make George Orwell pause in the systematic suppression…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 3, lines 16 and 17, strike ``(except the Committee on Appropriations of each House)''. Page 3, line 18…

I demand a recorded vote. The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Virginia will be postponed. Amendment No. 2 Offered by Mr. Israel The CHAIR. It is now in order to…

You know, I listened to my friend from Georgia, and Lord Almighty, do I agree with him. We should have all that information available to us on dynamic scoring, including--and I assume the gentleman will support my amendment--to correct…

I thank my friend from Maryland. Listening to the debate on the floor, one feels one is living out an ``Alice in Wonderland'' chapter. My friends on the other side of the aisle continue to repeat their orthodoxy that slashing taxes and…

This regime has to fall, and the United States, as I said, must be a beacon of hope and freedom for those who suffer under its oppression.

I am listening to the stories here on the floor. I must say I am a little surprised at this newfound commitment on the other side of the aisle to women. So how about raising the minimum wage for women? How about joining with us in…

To what extent does the promise of education get dashed on the shoals of other cultural barriers?

For one thought of a way to do this without tremendous expense would just be to take expired textbooks here in the United States that are effective texts, ship them back in some of the empty shipping containers that you and I have talked…

One thing I have been advocating on this committee for a long time is that we put our development and foreign aid dollars into printing textbooks.

The title of this hearing is 'Women's Education: Promoting Development, Countering Radicalization.'

At its fundamental, ACA is about coverage, and Massachusetts is demonstrating it.

If there are things to be fixed, why not come together and try to fix them?

I wonder what it would be like if we could just join in together to address those issues.

So I think we have to understand a certain risk will be inherent in these activities.

You know, I wish, on this subject, we could sort of move beyond the partisan talking points.

The individual mandate that we have in RomneyCare and ObamaCare, do you know where it came from intellectually?

It came out of the Heritage Foundation. It was a conservative Republican idea.