NATO countries, NATO allies cannot authorize the United States to take military action.

Nobody up here wants him to remain, but the moral standard that we set on issues like this is the same one that we should expect.

I just think it's an untenable position for any administration to develop that.

I am not going to sit here and let everybody throw the dart at the White House saying the President violated this and that when he was the first President to ever say I accept the constitutionality of the War Powers Act.

when you have an operation that goes on for months, costs billions of dollars, where the United States is providing two-thirds of the troops even under the NATO fig leaf.

Presidents should not be able to avoid constitutional responsibilities merely because engaging the people's representatives is inconvenient or uncertain.

I would like to enter into the record as a long-time supporter of Metro expressing my support for management endeavors to enhance public safety.

I have a statement I would like to enter into the record as a long-time supporter of Metro expressing my support for management endeavors to enhance public safety and to encourage the Federal Government to do its fair share in support of…

I am a member of the full committee. I have a statement I would like to enter into the record as a long-time supporter of Metro expressing my support for management endeavors to enhance public safety and to encourage the Federal Government…

I listened with great interest to my friend from Florida berate you for not being here previously.

I am not a member of the subcommittee, but I am a member of the full committee.

But to go to a rigid formula where everything is competitively bid, especially in the research field, I think could be risky, frankly, and could choke innovation unwittingly.

I would hope that all of us in the political arena would show a little bit more respect for what we are trying to do.

We need to be cognizant to ensure that any additional reporting requirements... avoid the imposition, however, of an unfunded mandate.

I would remind us of the fact that, for example, the successful crash effort to make sure the United States had the atom bomb before the Nazis was not competitively bid.

It was frankly to me a despicable thing but it became the political arena.

What is the Federal Government doing to ensure equitable distribution of grant moneys?

I commend to you Susan Collins' bill. I introduced it here in the House.