Jim Saxton

The reason we should pay close attention to the mounting crisis and escalating war is the vital strategic importance of the Horn of Africa to the United States and its close allies.

It was essential that we act to help stop the escalation of the crisis in the Horn of Africa, and particularly the Ethiopia-Eritrean war, if the region was not to slide further into chaos.

What makes the situation in the Horn of Africa so unique is that there is no need for a U.S. military intervention in order to establish such stability.

The Navy has two options to upgrade its radar capabilities. One is an upgrade of the SPY-1 radar. I believe that this option would meet all the Navy Theater Wide system requirements while also meeting the projected cruise missile threat…

I also note that the report discusses the availability of a prototype radar by the year 2001 to support testing of the new interceptor.

In the authorization conference report there is a large increase of $120 million for the Navy Theater Wide Ballistic Missile Defense system that we just spoke of. I believe $50 million of the increase was set aside specifically for…

As the author of H.R. 1856, the National Wildlife Refuge System Volunteer and Community Partnership Act, I am pleased to report that the Senate has passed this bill with amendments and returned it to us. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service…

Just as the previous speaker, I rise on behalf of one of my constituents, Hill International, a company which has fought for over a decade to collect a debt from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is an unpaid debt which has been unfairly…

I think that a matter of fairness applies here and that it is crucial that the strict liability provision be replaced. I am not alone in feeling that way. As a matter of fact, I have here a letter from the Illinois Department of Natural…

I support S. 1883, a bill introduced by our colleagues from Alabama, Senators Shelby and Sessions, to transfer the Marion National Fish Hatchery and the Claude Harris National Aquacultural Research Center to the State of Alabama. This…

I would like to convey my personal sympathies and to say that our heart goes out to the families of the Americans who were apparently killed earlier this morning in eastern Africa, yet another two terrorist attacks against Americans…

I would just quickly make one final point, and that is that acts of terrorism, we know now, are not carried out in a vacuum. They are part of an overall plan to destabilize some kind of activity. I would suggest that, in this case, Mr…