Porter Goss: “Mr. Speaker, it is hard to negotiate when one of the parties will not put on the table an opening offer. Therefore, this…”

I did not make any comment or hold up this quote from the Congressional Record that indicates that Senator Kerry had doubts about intelligence to be combative or confrontational or to be insensitive or to in any way offend my colleagues on…

I think everybody is recalculating their view of the speaker. He called Hastert's actions inexcusable, not acceptable to any of the parties involved.

It may be only a matter of time before al Qaeda or other group attempts to use chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons. We must focus on that.

It becomes almost a piece of the Holy Grail for a small country that otherwise might be victimized, living in a dangerous neighborhood, to have a nuclear weapon.