Thomas A. Garrett: “At this point, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Conaway).”

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.

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

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