mr. rothman. as i said in my opening remarks, home run 1, we absolutely recognize that -- the part that this committee and this bill has in our national security. so putting that together, as i said, that would be the last place we would try to cut and recognize that, as you said, nondefense discretionary spending. mr. rothman. >> thank you, madam chairman. madam secretary, i could spend a few minutes in extolling your work as secretary of state. you bring incredible energy, intelligence, command of the issues. and if i may say so, your credibility as hillary rodham and as hillary rodham clinton, both. >> thank you. >> and the united states is much more secure and better off because of your service. god bless you and god speed in your work. i want to thank you for your leadership in the united states' veto of the security council on that one-sided ridiculous resolution that was attempting to force an agreement on the two-state solution that israel so desperately wants but the palestinians are resi

mr. rothman -- sorry, mr. jackson. >> i'm prepared, but i think mr. rothman was before me. >> thank you very much. mr. rothman. >> thank you. mr. secretary, good to see you again. thank you for your readiness and willingness always to come before members of the congress in the committeed to answer all of our questions. you have been tireless, and transparent with what the administration is doing. i'm very grateful for your enthusiastic compliance with our request to have you meet with us. i have spoken written support in the things that you have talked about, the multiplier factor of our foreign assistance and our diplomacy, and our participation in these international aid funds. but i do want to be a devil's advocate just for a moment. you did mention that because we do need to find additional spending cuts, not cuts that hurt the middle class jobs or innovation, or infrastructure in america, or u.s. national security interest, but nonetheless, we have to find cuts. they are all going to be tough. the asia development bank, you mention, if you don't p

mr. rothman. you are trying to manage a very difficult situation that really nobody anticipated. we have the adversaries who didn't anticipate either but they are trying to exploit it. so from al qaeda and iran, what are they doing in egypt, what are they doing in libya and these other places. >> that's another thing that keeps me of that might come congressman cole. meter elon al qaeda had anything to do with these uprisings. now there are those who are of conspiratorially minded approach is and claim they do but there is no evidence of that, but there is no doubt they are going to try to get a vantage of everything that is happening everywhere. we know from our intelligence reporting, from anecdote reporting, our embassies, political officers the everywhere iran can to get in touch they are going to either directly or indirectly through proxies' like hezbollah and hamas. there is no doubt that hezbollah, to go back to the question about bahrain that congressman schiff asked the hezbollah is an adult the late to influence bahrain and try to say you should be what we are and look

mr. rothman. you are trying to manage a very difficult situation that really nobody anticipated. we have the adversaries who didn't anticipate either but they are trying to exploit it. so from al qaeda and iran, what are they doing in egypt, what are they doing in libya and these other places. >> that's another thing that keeps me of that might come congressman cole. meter elon al qaeda had anything to do with these uprisings. now there are those who are of conspiratorially minded approach is and claim they do but there is no evidence of that, but there is no doubt they are going to try to get a vantage of everything that is happening everywhere. we know from our intelligence reporting, from anecdote reporting, our embassies, political officers the everywhere iran can to get in touch they are going to either directly or indirectly through proxies' like hezbollah and hamas. there is no doubt that hezbollah, to go back to the question about bahrain that congressman schiff asked the hezbollah is an adult the late to influence bahrain and try to say you should be what we are and look

mr. rothman. you are trying to manage a very difficult situation that really nobody anticipated. we have the adversaries who didn't anticipate either but they are trying to exploit it. so from al qaeda and iran, what are they doing in egypt, what are they doing in libya and these other places. >> that's another thing that keeps me of that might come congressman cole. meter elon al qaeda had anything to do with these uprisings. now there are those who are of conspiratorially minded approach is and claim they do but there is no evidence of that, but there is no doubt they are going to try to get a vantage of everything that is happening everywhere. we know from our intelligence reporting, from anecdote reporting, our embassies, political officers the everywhere iran can to get in touch they are going to either directly or indirectly through proxies' like hezbollah and hamas. there is no doubt that hezbollah, to go back to the question about bahrain that congressman schiff asked the hezbollah is an adult the late to influence bahrain and try to say you should be what we are and look

mr. rothman. you are trying to manage a very difficult situation that really nobody anticipated. we have the adversaries who didn't anticipate either but they are trying to exploit it. so from al qaeda and iran, what are they doing in egypt, what are they doing in libya and these other places. >> that's another thing that keeps me of that might come congressman cole. meter elon al qaeda had anything to do with these uprisings. now there are those who are of conspiratorially minded approach is and claim they do but there is no evidence of that, but there is no doubt they are going to try to get a vantage of everything that is happening everywhere. we know from our intelligence reporting, from anecdote reporting, our embassies, political officers the everywhere iran can to get in touch they are going to either directly or indirectly through proxies' like hezbollah and hamas. there is no doubt that hezbollah, to go back to the question about bahrain that congressman schiff asked the hezbollah is an adult the late to influence bahrain and try to say you should be what we are and look