Political Quotes

“I just wanted to reiterate to my friend the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Sisisky) that one of the great things about the Committee on National Security over the last couple of years has been that despite our strong debate, especially on strategic systems on the House floor, and I admit I am often a partisan in that debate with respect to the Strategic Defense Initiative and other initiatives that I think have been given short shrift, we have always been together on technology transfer. We have been very close on that, and we have kind of held the line against other interests, particularly against commercial interests, because there is that compelling interest in commercial operations to press the advantage, to make that last sale, even though it may be militarily critical technology that is involved that one day could harm our troops on the battlefield. We have always stuck together. Interestingly, it has been not only Republicans and Democrats, it has been conservatives and liberals.”