I continue to have reservations about efforts to reconcile with the Taliban and al-Qaeda-affiliated groups.

I think it would be a terrible mistake to slash our economic assistance to Pakistan.

I support the President's decision to withdraw all combat troops by 2014.

I am deeply concerned about our rapidly deteriorating relationship with Islamabad and how that impacts our efforts in Afghanistan.

America cannot afford a course of isolation and retreat.

I would hope that we would do all we could for rural Sindh that is suffering from this year's floods.

54 years ago this month, Sputnik knocked the United States into second place in the space race. America responded with a tremendous investment in the sciences, which produced the Apollo program, the personal computer, the Internet, GPS…

I think it's very important that we have a clear mission.

The decision by the President to dispatch 100 military advisors to assist in the effort to address that threat is consistent, it seems to me, with congressional intent in the passage of previous legislation.

The previous administration low balled the cost of Iraq and Afghanistan and here we are well in excess of $1 trillion later.

What is our strategic interest here?

Imagine if Teddy Roosevelt had allowed a few gold miners in the Grand Canyon to block protection of that great American landmark. Imagine if loggers and sheepherders had blocked designation of Yosemite as a National Park. Today, we…

I thank my friend. Madam Chairman, the House majority has bought yet another anti-EPA bill to the House floor. Last week, the House passed legislation to increase mercury and particulate pollution from cement factories, poisoning fetuses…

Instead of begging for help, we need a realistic policy that reflects the urgency and the multifaceted nature of the Iranian threat.

We can't treat this as some rogue element that probably is separated from the Ahmadinejad government and the clerical ruling elite.

It is a sensitive matter not easily traversed, and I think, as the ranking member said in his opening statement, no administration has been as forthright and as forceful in taking on Iran at every level and using every lever at its…

It is perfectly appropriate, and it is time to assign blame, given the relationship of the Qods force to this government.

I cannot conceive of a more irresponsible or frightening finger on the nuclear button than that of the Iranian regime.

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 251, noes 172, not voting 10, as follows: [Roll No. 789] AYES--251 Adams…

The nuclear program is, however, a symptom of the disease, rather than the disease itself.

It is long past time to jettison this dangerous fantasy as it is presently warping our entire policy toward the region.

The actions by both regimes show a disdain for international law and norms that is incompatible with the values and interests of the United States.

I think the basic direction of the Iranian regime is something that we have to take at face value and take very seriously.

Let me say at the outset, I have been impressed, and I know others have been as well, with the fact that we now finally have an ambassador in Damascus in Ambassador Ford, on behalf of this administration.

The United Nations is an important place. It doesn't do everything right.