Jim Saxton: “Earl deserves a great deal of our gratitude and admiration for his tireless service.”

I rise today to very sincerely thank my good friend from Missouri for his leadership in bringing this revised edition of the National Defense Authorization Act to the floor in an expedited manner. It's unfortunate that we find ourselves in…

I rise in opposition to this 21-day extension to FISA. If Congress does not act this week, critical tools that allow our intelligence officials to monitor terrorist communications overseas will expire. We not let that happen! As we all…

Madam Chair, I rise simply to say, as we have heard from previous speakers, and perhaps to state the obvious, this piece of legislation, H.R. 1585, is a strong bill. More importantly, in my judgment it is a bill that was put together in a…

I believe it is time that this House go on record and vote on whether emergency funding bills should have a troop withdrawal timeline. I want to reiterate to my colleagues the message that we are sending if we include such a timeline in…