mr. royce: mr. speaker, i am rising in support of h.r. 6651, this is the pepfar extension act of 2018. 20 years ago i was honored to serve as chairman of the africa subcommittee on the house foreign affairs committee, and during my tenure, everywhere i went, particularly in southern africa, hospitals were full and classrooms sat empty as teachers fell ill. life expectancy plummeted, economies deteriorated across the continent. tens of millions of children were orphaned across africa when mothers and fathers and teachers and soldiers and factory workers and health professionals died. the aids pandemic that ravaged sub-saharan africa and parts of latin america and eastern europe and asia was so bad that in 2000, the u.s. intelligence community identified hiv-aids as a major threat to u.s. economic security and to our national security. to address this, a diverse bipartisan coalition of administration officials, of members of congress, faith leaders, advocates, n.g.o.'s, all joined with president bush

mr. royce: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. royce: mr. speaker, since the horrific attacks of september 11, 2001, the united states has committed lives and treasure to help stabilize countries plagued by conflict and by insecurity. we undertake these efforts because unchecked instability abroad threaten ours economic, humanitarian and security interests here at home. of course the united states cannot achieve its objectives alone. we need to coordinate with willing and able partners. we need to endanger local leaders, we need to empower civil society, we need of course to work with the private sector and we need to improve coordination among our own national security agencies to ensure they're working together to advance clearly defined objectives. and to eliminate duplication and waste. through this process they learn and adapt. last june, the department of state, the u.s. agency for international development, and the

this is something the full committee chairman, mr. royce and i have been working on, as well as representative frankel. they are not here, and if you could comment on that, that would be appreciated. >> i would be happy to. before i answer that question, let me briefly react to chairman poe's question. it's true, iran is the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. it is a title they are probably proud of and not one they are looking to relinquish. we are spending $237 million. we have requested $237 million for the ct bureau, but the entirety of u.s. government efforts to counter iran terrorism is much more extensive. i would like to contextualize our request in the context of the broader effort against iran-backed terrorism. as to the question of women, this is an important issue, and i'm grateful to you for raising it. it is one we need to focus on carefully. women are both potential victims of terrorism in unique ways, and also potential perpetrators in unique ways. they are also potential detectors of terrorism in unique ways.

this is something the full committee chairman, mr. royce and i have been working on, as well as representative frankel. if you could comment on that, that would be appreciated. >> i would be happy to. before i answer that question, let me briefly react to chairman poe's question. it's true, iran is the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. it is a title they are probably proud of and not one they are looking to relinquish. we are spending $237 billion. we have requested $237 billion for the ct bureau, but the entirety of u.s. government efforts to counter iran terrorism is much more extensive. i would like to contextualize our request in the context of the broader effort against iran-backed terrorism. as to the question of women, this is an important issue, and i'm grateful to you for raising it. it is one we need to focus on carefully. women are both potential victims of terrorism in unique ways of terrorism, and also potential perpetrators in unique ways. they are also potential detectors of terrorism in unique ways. one of th

receiving training under the assistance program and this is something that the full committee's chair, mr. royce and i have been working on as well as representative frankel from florida on this issue and they're not here, and if you can comment on that, that would be appreciated. >> i would be happy to. >> before i answer that question, let me briefly react the chairman's question, $1 billion, versus the 37 million and it's the state-sponsored terrorism and it's something that they are very proud of and it's not something they're looking to relinquish any time soon. we are spending $237 billion and we requested $237 billion for the ct bureau, but to counterterrorism it's much more extensive than what we requested. i would like to contextualize our request against iran-backed terrorism. as for the question of women, this is a very important issue, congressman, and i am grateful for raising it and it's one i need to focus on carefully. women are both potential victims of terrorism in unique ways and women are also potential perpetrators of terrorism in unique ways and there are also potent

this is something that the full committee chair, mr. royce and i have been working on as long as, as well as a percentage of prickle from florida. they are not here, if you can comment on that, that would be appreciated. >> i would be happy to. before i answer that, amy react to chairman question about $1 billion versus the 237 million. it's true, it is the leading and response. it's the title they were probably very proud of. someone they are looking to relinquish anytime soon. we are spending $237 billion we have requested $237 billion for the bureau. but the entirety of the u.s. government effort to counter iran terrorism is much more extensive to the just the 237 million we have requested. i would like to contextualize our request in the context of the broader u.s. effort against the terrorism. as for the question of women. this is a very.issue. i'm grateful to you and your colleagues for raising it. it's one we need to focus on very carefully. women are both potential victims of terrorism and unique ways and women are also potentia

mr. royce: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, the headlines are pretty clear. hurricanes bigger and costlyier than ever before. 2.3 billion people affected by flooding disasters in 20 years. rising sea levels could cost the u.s. trillions. yet somehow congress fails to act, and i share with you that mr. duffy has articulated this problem very well. we're here again for the 40th 1998 we imes since have passed an extension of the national flood insurance program, but without the needed reforms. four months have passed since the last vote. we still have nothing to show for it. no one has been a greater advocate for reform that our colleague, mr. blumenauer -- than our colleague, mr. blumenauer, of oregon, and together he and i have authored a number of bills that would better prepare americans for rising floodwaters, as had mr. duffy. reforms that would address the fact that fewer than 2% of five million policies have absorbed more than $80 billion in payments. are we here today to talk about reforms? no. we're here to support a program that tells americans that i

for what many people believe really contributed to this atmosphere first royce. mr . in his speech. referred to them as the intellectual instigators of racism and he said my impression is their number is growing and he you know he named them all but name them he said the far right in parliament we know he's talking about this this new party in parliament the alternative to germany or fifty as we call it that he said they've perfected this type of incitement relativizing and misrepresenting history and it's you know is what we call dog whistle races. speaking to a certain section of the of the population who perhaps you know just for their own reasons ready to get out and be violent or demonstrate or exhibit that loud and offensive nationalism that president should on my i was talking about earlier on in his speech you know it's a kind of simple view of history if you like simplification and misrepresentation is the problem and you know. we call it history but it's really as i say very much the present for a lot of people we can see that the german chancellor is now getting up to spe

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