Porter Goss

The election has been, by all observation, a total sham. The OAS has come back and said this is not even a pretense of democracy. There is no transparency. The final blow for me, and I have been giving them the benefit of the doubt for a…

This is a continuum of efforts to protect one of the most unique, captivating, spectacular resources we have in the United States of America, the Florida Keys. This is complementary to the efforts that this body has taken with regard to…

Mr. Speaker, whenever anybody leaves an institution, an institution is obviously diminished, a little poorer, especially when it is a good person. Obviously people get replaced through the election process and through the hiring process…

If the gentleman is addressing me as ``the gentleman from Florida,'' is the gentleman asking, do we want to keep the troops in Haiti to stop Haitians from leaving the oppression in Haiti? Is that what this is about?

I would also on a personal note thank everybody for a difficult time while I have been away. It just goes to show that everybody is expendable here, and I appreciate being reminded of that. It keeps me humble.

Today, we are not going to make a judgment on the merits of the independent counsel's report. Everybody needs to understand that. We all do here. Instead, we are charged with providing a procedure for release of that report that is…

It may possibly be of interest to some of our guests in the room. ``Gore has said virtually nothing about it. Indeed, he has rejected pleas by industry leaders and legislators to play a larger role.'' We are talking about year 2000 here…

I strongly believe that the scope of the resolution takes care of that problem. I am not going to forgo my responsibilities as chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and I am sure the gentleman is not as the ranking…

I believe that the formula that the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Portman) and the gentleman from California (Mr. Condit) have come up with in fact does that. It just proves it shifts the burden in the debate, that is all.

I echo what the ranking member has said. I think the gentlewoman from California is right on in an area of critical importance; there is no doubt about that. We are in the middle of the investigation, as the gentlewoman knows. We are going…

I take very seriously the necessity of intelligence support for fighting and winning the war on drugs. There is no question that global narcotics trafficking does require intelligence and it requires a close and good working handoff to law…

Sometimes we overlook the fact that we have men and women, dedicated men and women in the intelligence community in the United States of America, who are working literally 7 days a week, night and day, to make sure our national security…

I oppose a long-term extension of that provision of the immigration law, known as section 245(I), which has been discussed already this morning, which allows aliens who are in this country illegally to pay a fee and then adjust to…

I take very seriously, living in Florida, which is not unlike the problem in California, of drug smuggling and the impact we see on our streets. We have a problem. We are not insensitive to this, I assure my colleague, and I assure her…

Let me clearly tell the gentlewoman that I have tremendous respect for the gentleman from California [Mr. Dixon], and I think Mr. Dixon has said exactly the right thing. The specific facts that the gentlewoman is basing her allegation on…

As far as I am concerned, if the gentlewoman has some new information that is additional or supplemental or complementary to any of the previous work that has been done on this, that she would bring it to the committee's attention, that we…

The subject of this amendment is chemical weapons, chemical weapons in the Gulf?

Again, if the gentleman will continue to yield, I believe that the question of declassification includes the question of classification, because I think there is great abuse there, as the gentleman has heard me say. I believe this is…

I thank the gentleman, but here on the floor, in the people's House, for the people of the United States who pay the taxes that constitute this secret budget, we cannot know how much a 5-percent cut constitutes, so we cannot know whether…

I would be happy to accept the amendment, of course, because I understand it was inadvertently left out, and it is not a new issue; it is one that I have supported before. I just want to make sure the gentleman is entirely clear that…

I would assure the gentlewoman from California that it is the intent of the committee that the legislative history of this provision as it was developed in the debate in 1995 is applicable to the exercise of this authority. Indeed, the…

In fact, all the individual has to do is ask. They have the right to ask and they have the right to get the right answer, but remember that we are talking about investigations here. We are not talking about people who are arrested. There…

Reclaiming my time, I take the gentleman at his word. We are trying to expedite a good idea, and I have seen 2 weeks stretch into many years at the White House. Let us hope that we can preclude that.

I did not want to put words in the mouth of the gentleman from Hawaii. What I heard him say, I thought, was that we need to deal with the job dislocation in this matter. I think that is a fine sentiment. We have something called private…

For the Coastal Zone Management Act, we thought seaweed might be appropriate. You can drape it around yourself in certain ways and get the same result as with a fig leaf. It is really heavy, though. The reason we thought it was…