As part of our review so far, we have seen all kinds of ridiculous outcomes. We have seen agencies disagree on classification decisions.

I thank my good friend, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Engel). I rise in opposition to H.R. 5631, the so-called Iran Accountability Act. The majority has decided, on its own, without any bipartisanship, to co-opt traditional action on a…

Instead, the majority is scrambling to pass at the last hour of this part of our session, just before a 7-week recess, the bill before us today. It is a farce. It is a dangerous gambit by the majority to play election-year politics at the…

The humanitarian crisis in Syria has reached staggering heights.

I am proud that the United States has stepped up to lead the worldwide humanitarian response effort.

They have a democratic government. They had a revolution to get it. They overthrew the previous government because it was corrupt, it was a kleptocracy.

It is up to the Ukraine, I would say to my friend from California, to decide on the disposition of its own territory, not up to us and not up to Russia.

The regime leverages food and water as a weapon of war.

This flagrant violation of international humanitarian norms must end.

You cannot have any confidence in an election when Russian troops are all over your territory.

I think that what unites Americans is that we do believe that people have a right, through the ballot box, to determine their destiny.

One might conclude from what you just said that, look, this authority or strengthening this authority through new legislation is a very crude weapon.

I commend the hundreds of aid workers, NGOs, and implementing partners that are on the ground risking their lives to provide food and medical care to the Syrian people.

There is nothing in my amendment... that ties anybody's hands.

You must withdraw from your illegal annexation and occupation of the Crimea.

The proper analogy actually is the American Civil War, Mr. Rohrabacher. It was not up to the United Kingdom and France to recognize Confederate independence.

I have consistently insisted, since the illegal invasion and annexation of the Crimea, that we must be clear as a bell, no ambiguity, no other conditionality.

Should one construe from the fact that the last time the head of Homeland Security provided that notification to the Department of State, Secretary of State was 15 years ago that we haven't had a problem in the interim?

It is for Ukraine to make that decision.

This resolution serves as a clear and unequivocal statement in support of the sovereign territory of Georgia.

There are international mechanisms for dispute resolution. They do not include the invasion and occupation for 8 long years of another country's sovereign territory.

We should invite the Ukraine to do whatever it considers best for the people of the Ukraine and the Crimea.

This would dishearten them, I can assure you. This is not a signal of support. This is a retreat.

It is simple, it is uncomplicated, and it is designed to show solidarity with our democratic friends struggling in the Ukraine.

We will be unwavering in insisting on the territorial sovereignty of sovereign states, whether Putin likes it or not.