John Mica

I thank the gentleman, and in spite of the incident that we had last week, and that was not a planned scheduled arrival, it was a departure from what we are talking about and properly opening National Airport to general aviation, I think…

I wish that we were here today talking about a $1 trillion funding project to improve the infrastructure of our Nation. If we look across the country, it certainly could be justified. Just in my district in Florida, from Orlando to…

I think I agree with Mr. Waxman that it's important that we strike a balance, that we move the process forward but that FDA does an adequate job of oversight and regulation.

We had the pressure from the public, we had the pressure from interest groups like AIDS to move this process forward.

Just to correct the record also, I would like the gentleman and the other Members to know, it was said in the beginning of this debate, also, that Pan Am 103 was brought down as a result of this situation, explosives in cargo. That is not…

I have great faith in the chairman, I have great faith in the ranking member, the Speaker, the majority leader and others who have expressed their commitment to resolve this fairness issue, and that is what it is, in conference. But this…

I have waited some 10 years for this issue to be discussed in this manner before the House of Representatives. This is the most important vote that this House of Representatives and this Congress will have since we did welfare reform…

I can say here tonight that we did not find one scintilla of evidence that there was any medical benefit by consuming marijuana, whether an individual was healthy or whether they were ill, or terminally ill. There was no evidence to that…

I just wanted to conclude both the debate on the amendment and more than likely the debate on this legislation. I thank everyone for their cooperation. This truly does show how legislation can be drafted in a bipartisan manner, and it…

I do appreciate the serious concerns that the gentleman from Kansas has raised relating to the repair manuals and other information that should be made available, and we will work with the gentleman to make sure that the concerns raised…

We appreciate very much the issues that have been raised by the gentlewoman from Texas. I think she makes some very valid points. They are issues that need to be considered, but we do not think they should be in the context of this…

As my colleagues know, I was going to offer an amendment that would have provided $30 million for research, development, and the initial deployment of technology to protect our commercial aircraft from the threat posed by shoulder-fired…

I think the ranking member, the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar), has pointed out that we looked at the tasks that have already been assigned to TSA and we said wait a minute, this agency was given much more than it can do, and…

The airlines and the flight crews should be given the tools they feel are appropriate to protect themselves and their passengers, and that is why we have set the 90-day deadline for the Transportation Security Administration to issue a…

I do not believe that the Transportation Security Administration has yet developed a process to review these applications at this time.

I think it gives us the ability to defend the cockpit. And a terrorist will not know, a terrorist will not know which of these pilots are armed, but they will know that we as a Congress have acted and allowed some of those pilots to be…

Just to respond about the O'Hare incidents, as we look into the O'Hare incident, we find first of all Federal officials failed to detect this individual who was here on an expired visa. We find that Federal officials failed and let go this…

I did everything humanly possible to try to bring the House together on the best possible security plan, a comprehensive plan. If I thought for one minute that this substitute would do a better job, I would step forward and support it…

I want to say from the Republican side of the aisle, from the majority side, that each and every one of us want to pass legislation that will ensure the safety, the security of every member of the traveling public. We think it is…

September 11, 2001 is a day that each of us will remember as long as we live. That day and the terrorist acts committed against the United States must always remind us of the price we have paid for our freedom. Our hearts and prayers go…

You can take that police aid and dump it in the Potomac River, because the police will never be effective unless they are protected to go in there. You will have another 5,000 police lose their lives in Colombia.

Sacrifice of U.S. values, I heard that. Freedom and human rights. Well, there will not be freedom in Colombia while they are killing each other. It is in the United States' interests, it is in our interests as a neighbor not to let our…

I prepared an amendment to earmark funds for fiscal year 2002 funds for the Florida project, but I will not offer that amendment today. I want to thank the chairman for his intention to work with us on this project. It is most important to…

I again call to the attention of my colleagues, the Speaker, and the American people the need to be vigilant on the issue of illegal narcotics, not to make the mistake of the past, not to be fooled by the legalizers, but to make this…

I think the Committee on Government Reform is one of the most important committees in the House of Representatives and in the entire Congress. It has an interesting history that dates back to when our Federal government started building a…