Jane Harman

My district makes most of our Nation's intelligence satellites. I have served on our key security committees, and I devote enormous attention to helping develop legal and operational strategies to keep our country safe. The Obama…

I think this is a very important resolution which highlights an issue that directly impacts not just national security but employment in my district and many others. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are the backbone of…

Given the zeal with which it promotes and supports instability in the Middle East, given its myopic obsession with the destruction of Israel, its arming of and financial assistance to Hezbollah and Hamas, and its implacable, duplicitous…

Estuaries, the coastal wetlands where fresh and salt water meet, are both a vital filter for urban runoff that would otherwise flow out of the river and into the ocean, and a cradle for marine and wildlife. We are not able to create new…

In a few hours, the House leadership will finally introduce a rescission package on health care which will reduce our deficit over the next two decades to lower numbers than would either the House-passed or Senate-passed health bills. As a…

Madam Speaker, the war in Afghanistan has continued for 9 years, and the Obama administration continues to rely on the almost decade-old authorization to use military force which Congress passed, as we have heard, by an overwhelming vote a…

Like Mr. Kucinich, I want the U.S. military out of Afghanistan at the earliest reasonable date, but accelerating the Obama administration's carefully calibrated timetable could take grievous risks with our national security. I share Mr…

I rise today because I think we are missing an opportunity. There are good ideas in this House about how to curb the abuses with national security letters, how to clarify that roving wiretaps are limited to a single identifiable target…

I am very disappointed about the way it was handled. I personally think the gentleman from Michigan is correct, and I applaud what he is doing. As we debate this bill, we must thank again the thousands of patriotic and courageous women and…

I rise in strong support of the manager's amendment, which includes two provisions which I authored and which address problems continuing to impede our efforts to keep our country safe. First, it requires the Inspector General of the…

Jack Murtha was a paradox: a big man with an impressive war record who never wavered from his commitment to the wounded, the disadvantaged, and always challenged those who, in his strong opinion, underestimated the economic and human costs…

I thank Chairman Reyes for yielding to me and for the nice things that he says not only about me but surely about the women and men who serve our intelligence community around the world. And I thank him for authoring this resolution. Madam…

We wanted to draw your attention to--the threat that the investor rights rules in the Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) pose to important state and local laws and regulations that protect the environment and…

I absolutely believe that the authorities designed by your predecessor were inadequate.

I thought your service in the White House was exemplary, and you were always available to counsel on a bipartisan basis or a nonpartisan basis about what we ought to do to protect the homeland.

We all vigorously support the First Amendment, and the right of free expression.

We do think the public should understand what the policies and practices of the Federal Government and State and local and Tribal governments are.

We have passed a bill twice, based on this premise--that we over-classify things at the Federal level.

The threats are grave, as Mr. McCaul stated. There is no such thing as zero risk.

As I have often said, security and liberty are not a zero-sum game.

You do us a great service, and you are protecting our country.

I view Mr. Cheney's views as Vice President as a complete somersault from his much more cautious and, I think, prudent views at the time.

I think we are at serious risk of shredding our Constitution, which to some extent, in my view, happened in the last years since 9/11.

You are the eyes and the ears, and your participation in the intelligence process is critical to preventing further attacks.

I think that the discovery will be that the resources have been mismatched, that the real threats to the United States are overseas.