Howard Berman: “would it be fair to say that, in effect, his effort is an effort to gild the lily?”

I have no further requests for time, and I urge support for the legislation. I yield back the balance of my time.

If we are going to want to make sure that our diplomats are secure, then we have to pony up the money.

I have no further requests for time. And I'd like to just raise a couple of the issues that my friends, Mr. Paul from Texas and Mr. Kucinich from Ohio, have put forth in the context of opposition to this bill. This is not the next step to…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, that is also my understanding. The intent of Congress is to place people in the classified annex only if the President determines and justifies to the relevant committees that it is vital…