Neil Abercrombie

And so, I think it would be also fair to indicate that these two amendments that appear before us today, if anything, would be characterized by individuals on the Committee on Armed Services, such as myself, as possibly being even a little…

And would it not be fair to say that the question we had in the Committee on Armed Services was as to whether the Commerce Department was the best area to be making decisions with respect to national security interests of this country and…

I ask the gentleman, would it be fair to characterize some of the discussion that took place in the Committee on Armed Services since 1993 as addressing some of the very problems that the gentleman has outlined in that chart?

Dear Ike, as you are aware, I recently returned from a trip to Vienna as the senior Democrat on a congressional delegation that met with the leadership of the Russian Duma. My earlier trip to the region prompted me to lead a group…

I was smiling a bit, because the Members of the other side, of course, are the Democrats, not the Russians. That does highlight the point we are trying to make here that this is an effort being made by American parliamentarians with…

So this is not, in fact, a paper organization or merely something that was signed for the pro forma effect, but rather a working relationship that, if I remember correctly, just this year had over in the Rayburn Building a formal meeting…

So the individuals involved here have been those who have expressed an interest in trying to take up the challenge that has been presented to us with the ending of the Cold War in order to establish relations between Russia, not the former…

I just wanted to indicate to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Kingston) that I have been listening to the very eloquent, I think ``plea'' is a fair word to say. In other words, that we are trying to get across what the difficulties are not…

And in this context, in order to provide for this we have to understand, there will be a significant change in the very context within which we will have an Armed Forces. For example, there will be ships in the near future, this is not…

And in order to accomplish this we will have to have a testing and training range. Now, in this instance I happen to be familiar with it because it involves the Pacific Missile Testing Range in Hawaii in the Pacific. The necessity is, is…

I do not dispute any of that. As I said, I have great respect for the gentleman. However, we battle every day in the Committee on National Security for those millions of dollars. We are not able to maintain our own troops. We are not able…

I would like to express once again my gratitude to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Saxton) and express my very fond aloha to him and to the committee staff. Mr. Speaker, I do not think anyone in the Congress is as devoted to the subject…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today then to urge my colleagues to support passage of S. 813, the Veterans Cemetery Protection Act, as amended by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. This bill instructs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to…

I realize, Mr. Speaker, that was said in a jocular fashion, and I can assure the gentleman from New York (Mr. Solomon], neither the gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. Taylor] nor myself meant to impose any such kind of admonition on the…

I rise in support of the Rodriguez amendment, just indicating that in one area, and I am sure it can be emulated in many areas across the Nation, in region 15, the Comprehensive Center for the Pacific will take care of areas in the most…

I will relate to Members in the course of my remarks the circumstances that took place at Punchbowl and elsewhere out in the Hawaiian Islands with respect to the desecration of our cemeteries there. It was with an equal degree of sadness…

That is not the position of the State of Hawaii, that this is a good thing. What is trying to be determined now is what is imperative based on the Hawaii State Constitution. As for the recitation about the Lambda Defense Fund, the Lambda…

I simply want to point out with respect to the constant allusions to other States being forced to do what may be decided in Hawaii that the case in Hawaii is based on the Hawaii State Constitution, which has an expansive provision for the…

Let us talk about it just a minute. Would you indulge me and stay a moment longer because you know I want to catch you up on the importance of what you are saying, what I think I understand you to be saying. You think it is immoral to…

And this budget does that over the next 5 years, or whatever the timeframe is, approximately 5 years, and I asked you then, I said, well, do you think then this is an argument against this particular budget? And you said, well, no, because…

Well, are you making an argument to vote against this budget then, because it does not balance, as you indicated, and it does borrow immorally against a future, the immediate future.

Would you agree that it is very convenient for the Committee on the Budget then to be able to cite the so-called surplus in the Social Security fund as a source of providing the funds for balancing the budget?

I had not gotten to that, but as Mr. Smith knows from our previous discussion, that is where in fact the money comes from. We borrow the money to mask the deficit, do we not?

As has been stated, Admiral Boorda served this Nation with honor and distinction and carried out his duties in that manner, and we are required on this sad day to carry out ours.

I do not think that we would resolve that particular dispute today. Suffice to say that Mr. Thornberry has raised the issue as to whether the formula is so exact in this bill that it needs no further consideration, and I think his…