Thank you for your distinguished leadership of the House Intelligence Committee. Madam Speaker, after 5 long years, we will soon have an intelligence authorization bill enacted into law. I would have thought that the ranking member of the…

All committee members will receive a full briefing 6 months after the Gang of Eight briefing unless the President continues to certify that ``extraordinary circumstances'' still exist that require a limited briefing. These were hard…

Our country faces a serious challenge. We are in danger of falling behind our global competitors in Europe and Asia in the critical fields of innovation and technology. Our children have fallen behind the rest of the world in critical math…

I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts and the authors of this resolution honoring our Chaplain, Father Daniel Coughlin. Mr. Speaker, when I think of Father Coughlin coming to the House, I think of the moment 10 years ago when our…

I feel so privileged to be part of a Congress that is on the threshold of making history. Since Teddy Roosevelt and all Presidents forward, we have struggled in our country to provide something for our people that has eluded them. As the…

Finally, I would like to say in response to really a terrible charge that was made by one of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that this bill weakens the intelligence community, that it is an attack on the intelligence…

I just want to add, Madam Chair, this is in no way a ban across the entire Federal Government and Federal workers. There are some that teach at universities at night; there are others that make really very low salaries--GS-1s in the…

I am really pleased that this critical legislation is on the floor today. This bill take some very important steps to increase congressional oversight of the intelligence community, which is very much needed. I would like to address two in…

I would like to get a response from them, and any effort that we can make on this committee to get Treasury to respond to this issue, I think, is really important.

these were very conservative investments, and these public entities are required by law to spread out their portfolios and have a very safe place to hold the taxpayers' money.

one of the purposes of TARP is to help local governments, especially those impacted by the decision to allow Lehman to collapse.

Many don't realize that that language is now the law, and it is very specific. It is section 1037.