This important legislation will improve transparency in the bond market that will be beneficial to those purchasing these important financial instruments.

I appreciate all the work you have done on this legislation, and I look forward to working with you on issues of mutual concern in the future.

The 500,000 farmers who use Farm Credit System institutions for their credit needs are facing terrific challenges brought about by bad weather, low commodity prices and lost export markets.

As chairman of the House Agriculture credit subcommittee, I am extremely sensitive to proposals affecting the providers of credit to farmers and ranchers across our nation.

NATO appears to have changed into an organization prone to use bombs in lieu of diplomats.

This is an untenable stance for a major trading power; the EU should abandon it before doing any more damage to the global trading system.

U.S. officials were flabbergasted, and rightly so.

No government can guarantee its citizens zero risk, and no public agency should presume to try.

Halt the bombing of Yugoslavia and declare a cease-fire, lest NATO become its own nemesis.

Romanians dream about becoming part of NATO. Our dream has been to enter an alliance that occupies a moral high ground.

But, a way out exists. NATO can declare that it has inflicted sufficient punishment, and is prepared to contribute, but not necessarily command, a peacekeeping force.

We want NATO to win politically and morally. We want peace to be ensured by a great alliance and its strongest members.

the EU should give consumers the choice of purchasing American beef.

I remain unconvinced that this has occurred.

We need to specifically examine whether to continue the President's waiver on Arms Export Control Administration (AECA) economic sanctions, which were based on a number of conditions, including both countries signing the CTBT, halting…

The situation on the Korean Peninsula currently is fragile.

The presence of American forces strategically forward-positioned in Asia promotes stability, deters aggression and the rise of hegemonic forces, and ensures our strategic agility--the ability to rapidly and flexibly respond to crises.

We must continue to vigorously press Beijing to live up to both the letter and spirit of the international agreements it has signed.