Senator Leahy is right. When we look at our Constitution itself, it talks about a militia. When we look at the history of the country, it is the citizen soldier who got this whole concept called America started. We do need a standing Army…

I think the bilateral security agreement... is what will make the gains that we have in Afghanistan.

I want you to go because you and others fought so hard and it is coming apart and I do not want that to happen to Afghanistan.

none of us are going to stand for one person who has been caught three or four times by American forces going back to the battlefield killing Americans again.

If China engages in a cyber attack upon the United States, do you consider such an attack to be a hostile act against the United States?

If China engages in a cyber attack upon the United States, do you believe that the United States should respond to such an attack?

So we would be devastating our military.

Earmarking is a very parochial endeavor that does not allow you to look beyond your local interest.

We need to spend taxpayer dollars wisely with some kind of plan.

If China engages in a cyber attack upon the United States, do you believe it is legitimate under the Law of War for the United States to act offensively to counter any perceived cyber attack upon the United States?

That has been the norm in our Nation's history and all other wars and conflicts.

I want to actually bring a solution.

I can tell you there is not, and that reflects badly on us all.

Count me in. How the hell do you get your products to the market?

I want to thank the gentleman from Colorado for his leadership on this issue, not only on the Committee on Energy and Commerce, but also as a leader on the House Energy Action Team, someone that understands that there is no national…

We would be shooting ourselves in the head. It would be a Navy without ships, without sailors, brigades without bullets, air wings without trained pilots.

We have absolutely no vision as a Nation as to how to deal with the change in shipping.

It is three times longer than it took to build the Panama Canal itself.