Jane Harman

our government organization was completely inadequate to the new set of threats, and we needed something different.

I think lone wolves are the growing threat, people with clean records who are radicalized on the Internet.

security and liberty are not a zero sum game. You either get more of both or less of both.

I remember the time vividly. We were all here on 9/11... it was terrifying, which is the point of a terror attack.

I think the law is a good law, and it is working, and the people in the top positions are excellent.

I think we need to have--and this is something you can do--a public debate about how to do this, not whether to do this.

We now have proof--I think we had some proof before, but we now have big-time proof that IRTPA works--that, at its best, our intelligence community can achieve the seamlessness that its authors, including me, dreamed of.

In fact, my view is that had we not passed IRTPA and had we continued to operate the intelligence community using the 1947 business model set out in the National Security Act, we would probably not have been able to thwart a number of…

the person accountable to Congress for the failures or successes is the DNI, not the Vice President of the United States.

The 30/10 initiative is a brilliant idea. Our mayor and his team deserve enormous credit for conceptualizing it.

This is true, that this is my last congressional hearing, and I have to say that participating in the first bipartisan, bicameral hearing in Los Angeles is the best going-away present anyone could give me.

We have a housing crisis and it is not yet fixed.

We can leverage dollars from the private sector, from local government, from State government, from wherever it comes.

This initiative has the power to transform infrastructure financing throughout the Nation, creating a million jobs, good, high-paying, much-needed construction jobs.

Public/private partnerships, so-called P3's, are the way to bring about innovative financing.

The Government should not do this alone. We all understand why printing more money and increasing the deficit are dangerous.

My congressional career will close on February 28 so that the constitutionally required special election to replace me can coincide with a statewide referendum Governor Brown intends to hold in California later this year. This timing will…

Today's health care repeal debate reminds me of tennis great John McEnroe's famous rant, ``You can't be serious.'' Everyone knows this vote is symbolic, putting off for another day the hard work of revising portions of this historic law…

As Gabby's colleagues, we all have had moments with her, so many memories that we recall vividly and fondly. For me, she is a refreshing, frank, and inspiring younger member of the House sisterhood. She is whip smart and a serious and…

I suppose, in an ironic way, Richard would smile at the enormous impact he had on friend and foe alike. He was a life force, a force of nature--someone always operating on multiple levels, in high gear, and in more than three dimensions…

As a rookie Member of Congress in 1993, I sat in the most junior chair on the Armed Services Committee, just a few feet from the witness table. Then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell testified in favor of the Clinton…

Occasionally in politics, and in life, unusual allies surface. Former Bush speechwriter and well-known conservative Michael Gerson has embraced the Dream Act--legislation that would provide a path to citizenship for young people who…

I want to thank my friend and subcommittee chair, Mr. Pallone, and his ace staff for working to bring this bipartisan bill, the Emergency Medic Transition, or EMT Act, to the floor. The bill will help our brave men and women who serve as…

I rise with sadness to note the passing of one of our Nation's preeminent cartoonists, Paul Conrad. Paul, who resided with his wife, Kay, in Palos Verdes, California--formerly a part of my district--was a friend and a political genius. I…

I opposed it then, and I oppose it now. No good has ever come of that policy. And I applaud the personal courage of current Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen who told Congress, ``No matter how I look at the issue, I cannot escape…