Very quickly back to Syria, if anyone tells you that this is Turks versus Kurds, they should tell Sheikh Bandar, the leader of thousands of Arabs who fight alongside the Kurds and the SDF. If anyone tells you it is Turks versus Kurds, they…

Over Thanksgiving, I had the amazing opportunity to accompany some impressive individuals and thought leaders from the Freedom Research Foundation, on my own dime and my own time, into Iraq and northeastern Syria. There was a debate that…

I believe to my very core that the best of the collective is achieved by empowering the individual.

I have implored my peers and superiors on this committee to remember the words of Arthur Vandenberg, that politics stop at the water's edge.

These promises of fairness manifest themselves in the uniform distribution of poverty and suffering.

I wish we could do more--the sense of Congress regarding a tragedy that's literally impacted millions is the right thing to do.

Somewhere, Mr. Speaker, someone is watching what is going on in this Chamber. Even now, probably in a Nation of 320-plus million, many someones are watching, and most of them don't have a clue who I am, and that is okay. But the fact that…

I will consider myself a historian and some lessons are written large on the pages of history, if we are only willing to listen.

The Voice of America, when properly levied, has been instrumental to the freedom of literally hundreds of millions of people and that shouldn't be underestimated.

It is one of my great pleasures to educate young people about the United States Constitution. I find myself in an interesting position today because the people that I am educating aren't that young. One of my colleagues said that we are…

I believe, paraphrasing, there are threats greater than an Islamist insurgency that's nationalist in its nature.

perhaps have we considered a paradigm wherein we tie aid and development to Afghanistan to eradication efforts?

I would submit that the North Korean regime from 1950 has a history of making a promise and then breaking a promise.

We have an ability--and a responsibility... to be a check on executive power by virtue of speaking when we are in disagreement.

I am prepared to close if the gentlewoman from Oregon would like to conclude her remarks.

I believe that an empowered educated economically-thriving class of women across the world will reduce radicalism and reduce conflict and increase economic opportunity.

Our role is oversight and the responsible stewardship and allocation of tax dollars taken from working Americans.

This isn't right. We have a good program that is working that helps America save lives.

We want to help the nations, for example, of Afghanistan, and we send a dollar over there, and 50 cents trickles down and 50 cents is pilfered.

Where there is opportunity for women, there is a reduction in radicalization.

please help. It is not about foreign workers, it is about American businesses that have been around for decades that are shuddering because we cannot create a system and circumstance wherein they have reliability and predictability.

I thank Congressman Scott for his comments. I refer to myself as a nerd--which is okay, because the nerds usually win in the end--who loves history. My acquaintance with the story of Barbara Johns did not begin as a school student taking…

It is an honor, the likes of which I can't think of a comparison, to stand here, in this week of April 2018, and commemorate a battle undertaken by a student that I would argue was a continuation of the American Revolution. The American…

If we had $32 billion dollars annually to construct a Southern Border wall, could we keep those people out of this country?