Thomas A. Garrett: “The gentleman said it more succinctly than I did in the last 4 minutes, and I thank him. The Acting CHAIR. The time of…”

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.

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.

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

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