C. W. Bill Young: “That is my question. How much is the gentleman prepared and authorized to come down.”

Americans can sleep well tonight because our soldiers are out there on the front line against terror making sure that we can do that. And we owe them a lot. We owe them our thanks. We owe them our appreciation. We owe them the necessary…

I want to include for the benefit of my colleagues today's editorial from my hometown newspaper The St. Petersburg Times that warns the House to be careful with the passage of this legislation. In Rx: dose of reality, the editors say…

during the discussion on these appropriation bills, there have been a number of amendments to strike out issues that were added by the committee rather than requested by the administration. I think that is a good application of the…

I am going to be very brief here and suggest that the chairman has already specified some of the details of the defense part of this bill. Mr. Speaker, I want to say that it is long past time for the Congress to have completed action on…