Mr. Speaker, I think we all know that now more than ever it is critical that our next Commander in Chief is ready to walk into the Oval Office and be ready to lead on day one. Keeping Americans safe is the President's most solemn duty…

Mr. Chairman, my amendment would exempt settlement agreements that strengthen the personal privacy of Americans from the blanket prohibition in this legislation. More specifically, it would preserve the ability of civil enforcement…

Mr. Chairman, I yield the balance of my time to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Johnson).

I thank the chairwoman for working with the Science Committee to host today's hearing.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of this resolution (H. Res. 660) to support the territorial integrity of Georgia. I want to thank my good friends and colleagues Mr. Poe and Mr. Connolly for introducing this excellent resolution…

Our shared jurisdiction over international energy issues is an important piece of U.S. foreign policy.

Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the distinguished chairman for yielding and for his leadership on this issue and Ranking Member Engel, and especially thank Chairman Salmon for authoring this important piece of legislation. North Korea, as we…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Chairman Royce for his leadership on AGOA in general. I thank Karen Bass, who has worked doggedly for years, last year for the reauthorization. I see Mr. McDermott, who has also been so active over the years on this…

Secretary Powell is a man I admire greatly, and I have tremendous respect for Secretary Powell and his decades of service to our nation despite the poor judgment shown in this email.

Well, first the time I went to Beijing was in 1986, and there were a lot of bicycles in Beijing.

It is unfathomable to me that a four-star commander in the field would take guidance from a staffer in the bureaucracy.

Frankly, how Congress is approaching this through the Armed Services Committee, not through the Foreign Affairs or Foreign Relations Committees, reminds me of H. L. Mencken.

Thank God there were low-level people telling the President a different thing than Curtis LeMay during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

I think we need to tread lightly. I don't think that the legislation only ought to have the imprint of the Armed Services Committee.

I just want to thank you for the indulgence and I think our witnesses were great.

This has been a very informative hearing.

I mean I heard my friend Mr. Perry talk about maybe that old system of 10 advisors is what we ought to go back to.

I think it is just too important.