Political Quotes

“I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: After section 501 (page 51, after line 18), insert the following new section: SEC. 502. STRATEGY TO COUNTER IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICES. (a) Strategy.-- (1) Establishment.--The Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense shall establish a coordinated strategy utilizing all available personnel and assets for intelligence collection and analysis to identify and counter network activity and operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan relating to the development and use of improvised explosive devices. (2) Contents.--The strategy established under paragraph (1) shall identify-- (A) the networks that design improvised explosive devices, provide training on improvised explosive device assembly and employment, and smuggle improvised explosive device components into Afghanistan; (B) the persons and organizations not directly affiliated with insurgents in Afghanistan who knowingly enable the movement of commercial products and material used in improvised explosive device construction from factories and vendors in Pakistan into Afghanistan; (C) the financiers, financial networks, institutions, and funding streams that provide resources to the insurgency in Afghanistan; and (D) the links to military, intelligence services, and government officials who are complicit in allowing the insurgent networks in Afghanistan to operate.…”