Issues
America desperately needs modern, nimble international broadcasting to counter ISIS’s online caliphate and Russian propaganda in real time – on the internet and over the airwaves – with accurate news and information.
Real, meaningful reform to the systemically broken Broadcasting Board of Governors and its unwieldy management structure has long been a priority of Chairman Royce.
Following the Obama administration’s nuclear deal, Iran’s behavior went from bad to worse. The radical regime in Tehran has used the cash windfall it received from the nuclear deal to step up its dangerous and destabilizing behavior. From Syria – where it supports the murderous Assad regime – to Yemen – where it fuels the civil war – Iran is seeking to spread terror and war across the Middle East in an effort to advance its objectives. And in Iran, the regime continues to unjustly imprison Americans and repress the Iranian people with terrible human rights abuses.
Radical Islamist terrorists are determined to destroy our way of life. Through acts of terror and genocide, they are waging war on anyone who does not share their twisted ideology.
Over the past year, important progress has been made in the fight against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. But despite these successes, the terrorist threat continues as fighters return home, and radical elements spread in Africa, Central Asia and across ISIS’s online “virtual caliphate.”
North Korea’s illicit nuclear program is a direct threat to the United States and our partners in the Pacific. The “strategic patience” the Obama administration showed North Korea only emboldened Kim Jong Un to test nuclear weapons and new missile systems that can hit the United States.
Radical Islamist terrorists are determined to destroy our way of life. Through acts of terror and genocide, they are waging war on anyone who does not share their twisted ideology.
Over the past year, important progress has been made in the fight against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. But despite these successes, the terrorist threat continues as fighters return home, and radical elements spread in Africa, Central Asia and across ISIS’s online “virtual caliphate.”