I would absolutely advocate President Tsai addressing a Joint Session of Congress here in Washington, DC, sometime in the not-too-distant future.

According to the 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment, the U.S. intelligence community finds that North Korea will seek to retain its weapons of mass destruction capability.

The purpose of the sanctions is to deter the nuclear development program in North Korea, is it not?

Expectations were high. The South Korean President was overjoyed at the prospect of perhaps reconciliation measures in the peninsula.

Following the Hanoi summit between President Trump and Mr. Kim, we are not even close to the goal of a denuclearized North Korea.

Have you seen progress since the two summits or since the adoption of those resolutions in terms of verifiable measures toward denuclearization?

I think maritime insurance is something that has been overlooked and could be a very potent tool in enforcing the sanctions Mr. Yoho just talked about.

There's been some speculation by some members of this committee that we can't possibly have this hearing or even request documents when there's pending civil litigation.

Well, you might want to check with those lawyers because we have no record of your department or you submitting a report as required by law.

I thank my dear friend from New York (Mr. Engel), the distinguished chairman of our committee, for his support. I thank my dear friend from Illinois (Mr. Kinzinger), the Republican manager today, for his support. And I salute my friend…

They seem to be testing the common values that presumably unite NATO members, not just what we are against but what we are for.

NATO is one of our most precious geopolitical assets and should stay that way.

the President's constant denigration of our allies presents a real threat to our foreign policy and national security objectives

it was time for the Congress to reassert itself in our foreign policy.

So if my math is correct, that means we have got 5.4 direct Federal hires and 3.6 million contract hires.

Chairman Connolly, that same year, Virginia's Governor also signed an executive order also banning the box.

It seems to me we have to have a current message or we become this disparate groups of 28 or 29 members.

Are we not lucky that Chairman Cummings has a bill that we can all consider getting on to help us with this.

I happen to believe more can be done to help ex-offenders find employment.

what we can do to make sure that the rest of the world understands that we are committed to this alliance

One does not know what the fate of the Kurds would be in that set of circumstances.

Congress needs to go one step further and that is to pursue bipartisan legislation that prohibits the President from unilaterally withdrawing from our most important alliance.

Policies of incarceration... is just inherently unequal.

the incredible show of support by the size of the delegation in Munich was widely noticed throughout Europe.

the resolution denying the President unilateral authority to pull out of the agreement is actually H.J. Res. 41 here in the House and that was introduced by Mr. Gallego and myself.