Dana Rohrabacher

Tolerance for religious differences is something that really needs to be understood.

4,000 people have disappeared.

It is greatly disturbing to hear that weapons that we have provided to Pakistan have been utilized to create human rights' violations.

Yeah, one of the miracles is getting the bureaucracy to get off their butt.

I am looking for William Eaton myself. That was pretty deep there.

Because if people are hiding what their real beliefs are, trying to couch it, we are never going to--people aren't going to understand what the reality is.

Let me remind everyone that in 1957, which was before this Science Committee ever existed, the National Academy of Sciences recommended that deep burial of nuclear waste, that that would be the way we solve this problem.

I think that our Founding Fathers and most of the people who built this country would be turning over in their grave if they found out that we were sending American military personnel in order to maintain the colonial boundaries that were…

This is a very, very complex situation now.

The bureaucracy, Mr. Chairman, is getting in the way of us moving forward.

We have spent $15 billion, you want to spend billions of dollars more in order to develop a plan of putting this in a hole and we don't even know if we can get anybody to agree to allow the hole to be near their community.

What we are here to discuss is start a national dialogue in the open about what America's policy should be in this very volatile part of the world.

If we are going to be taken seriously when we talk like this we have to be consistent and we have to be honest.

I suggest, Mr. Chairman, that we make this a priority in this country and quit pouring money down a rat hole that we don't need to have.

We have been manipulated for a longer than that.

The quicker we could stop assisting Pakistan in funding the Taliban that we are trying to fight, which is also creating human rights' violations against Baluchistan.

People have a right to their self-determination

When someone is helping kill Americans or threatening to set up some sort of dictatorship over--for whatever cause, Americans, we should not be on their side in helping them.

We should not be treating dictatorial potential enemies like China in the same way we treat Belgium or Brazil, for Pete's sakes.

We are treating each other as adults and treating each other fairly.

If the Philippines is going to succeed and be a prosperous country, they need to make sure they understand it is not going to be a favor from someone else.

I am appalled to see that General Electric and other aerospace companies are making their way toward Communist China.

We have got to make sure that, number 1, our satellite industry is the best satellite industry in the world.

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I rise in support of the conference report on H.R. 658. This legislation goes a long way in addressing some concerns I have had regarding our Nation's aviation enterprise. Two of those provisions I…

We have to consider that if someone is getting, for example, EPA grants in order to prove something, that would suggest that they have perhaps a bias.