This was a fundamental failure of leadership that placed expedience above constitutional responsibility.

The Constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it.

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.

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.

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

I think it was his obligation in February to come to Congress and get that authorization.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Thank you for holding this hearing which might at first glance appear relatively mundane but actually raises some important questions about the disbursement of Federal funding.

We must make sure we do not even unwittingly add to them.

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.

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.