But I cannot see the United States succeeding in containing Iran if we are not willing to use force and be credible about it.

The Obama administration could reaffirm our ongoing commitment to Israel's Qualitative Military Edge (QME) over any potential aggressor in the Middle East region.

I want to just mention to you that it is hard to believe that it has been 10 years ago, in the early morning hours of August 29, just a month from today, that Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast as a category 3 hurricane. With…

Today, I rise in recognition of the upcoming 50th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Our Nation took an important step forward 50 years ago when, on August 6, 1965, President Johnson signed into law this landmark…

I think he means what he says. We can think it is strange and unserious and not serious, but it is serious.

During the vote on H.R. 427 I was inescapably detained and away handling important matters related to my District and the State of Alabama. If I had been present, I would have voted ``no'' on final passage. PERSONAL EXPLANATION

The problem we are running into, and I think when you move around airports you will see this, is that frequent travelers who are the people we want into this program, have gotten in to it.

I believe that it was former adviser to President Reagan, Bud MacFarlane, who said revolutionaries don't go back on the revolution.

It has been the unified view of the world's developed nations that Iran not have a nuclear weapon. It is a grave threat to peace in the world.

The reason we want to stop Iran from having an ICBM program is that the 'I' in ICBM stands for 'intercontinental,' which means having the capability to fly from Iran to the United States, and we don't want that.

We are here to help solve this. We are Oversight, but we are also Government Reform.

I believe that you will not tolerate retaliation. There is no Member of this body that would go along with people being retaliated against.

You have rescinded the MOU?

It has been almost a year since the director of the Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System was fired after numerous reports of mismanagement and malfeasance surfaced--the missing patient x rays, the falsified records, the employee who…

The reason I am pressing this is, throughout this period of time you consistently offered to work with the OIG's office and did not do it.

Have you turned over all of the information from the investigations from the Office of Homeland Security?

You have got a big challenge on your hands. I have been on this committee since it was established...

I applaud them for being brave enough to come before this committee today and to tell their story.