Robert Dornan: “First of all, I want to pass out some compliments that I did not tell anybody I was going to do. But the prior speaker…”

“First of all, I want to pass out some compliments that I did not tell anybody I was going to do. But the prior speaker, the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Weldon] has developed into a national treasure. I am talking about you, Mr. Weldon, a national treasure on the way he tracks the Soviet Union. He is the only Member I know that has been over there more than the 10 or 11 trips I have made. He leaves me in the dust. When he speaks on the House floor on problems with all the nations that were prior Soviet Union nations, Americans had better listen. I also wanted to thank my chairman, the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Combest]. I just do not know a chairman that has taken the helm of a full committee and has steered it on such a straight and critically important course as my colleague from the great State of Texas. I do not have time to mention all the staff, but our senior chief of staff of the professional staff, Mark Lowenthal, is also a national treasure when it comes to intelligence.”