I strongly agree with what I have heard directly from Mr. Holte and other stakeholders... that all future gray wolf listing decisions should be made by experts in the field, not judges in courtrooms.

The migrant flow from the Middle East into Europe is, on its face, destabilizing.

I will just remind my colleagues that, in the last Congress, our European Subcommittee of this committee did hold a hearing on political assassinations in Russia.

Cyber warfare, when it comes to political interference, is just a new tool.

To say that it is truly a reflection of how we are graded at the end, I do not know that that is a completely true statement.

Diplomacy follows facts on the ground, right?

Again, to say the Syrian Democratic Forces, when we had the debate over the Syrian Authorization for Use of Military Force, who is leading it?

So do you think we will need substantially less than 70,000 total combined troops to take over Raqqa?

Who is going to hold the territory in Syria so that Assad just does not flow right back in there?

How much longer is that going to go on? Just a quick estimate.

So that is an 8-month effort with more than 70,000 troops. Is Raqqa going to be easier or more difficult than Mosul?

I am highly concerned about the deficit. I think that is very harmful in terms of economic growth.

America cannot be America without immigrants.

Here is finally a process within the administration with something that is subtractive.

I want to also confirm what Senator Crapo and Senator Toomey were saying in terms of your engagement and your willingness to work with us.

$14 trillion of economic growth yields more than $2 trillion of revenue.

It would be a true Warren Buffett tax, by the way. It would eliminate double taxation of dividends.

We have driven free market competition out of it.

Over the next 30 years, we have a projected deficit of $129 trillion.

Let us talk about why you want to grow the economy. If you go from 2 percent to 3 percent growth, that is about $14 trillion over 10 years of added economic activity.

The biggest impediment to growth, particularly for small and medium-sized businesses, is overregulation.

I have been tenaciously talking to CEOs, CFOs; they are very intrigued by the idea.

If we want to solve this long-term deficit--so much of Government spending is involved in health care--we have got to really focus on restraining the growth in health care costs.

we have to look at what can we do--and, of course, we had an excellent hearing here with former Senator Phil Gramm.

the whole purpose of tax reform would be to rationalize our tax system so it incentivizes growth.