What I wanted to do tonight, and I know my colleague has a number of aviation leaders and I think it is appropriate at this time in our history, when we are on the verge of perhaps another conflict and we have lots of people deployed and…

The French aircraft were unusual. Most of them were parked. We will talk about that later. Billy Mitchell gave an extraordinary warning to this country. He was not received well at the White House. There were a lot of budget hawks that did…

Well, Wally, that guy whose hat you blew up, was one of the original seven astronauts. And he was the only astronaut to have flown on all three space craft, Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. And what is remarkable, and maybe this was caught to…

Twenty-six aircraft. He was shot down himself on November 7, 1942, and he was rescued the next day. So what a great hero, Joe Foss. But the gentleman that was a special guy, who has been to a number of events and community gatherings we…

That reminds me of something that President Reagan said, and I am thinking of all those troops wearing the Desert Storm camouflage in the Middle East, you can go to France, you can never become a Frenchman. You can go to Germany, and you…

I thought we might start with General Bob Cardenas, who is a quiet man. He is a guy we do not see on a lot of magazine covers, but Bob Cardenas is a great test pilot, great bomber pilot who had his bomber blown apart in World War II…

Joe Foss, as the gentleman said, was inspirational to so many young people. He was born in 1915 in South Dakota and helped to run the family farm. In fact, he had to drop out of college to do that. But when he was 11 years old in South…

Let us move to another guy, whose picture my friend just gave me a couple of months ago, and who passed away. He was a great, great friend of ours, but what a great leader for America. Joe Foss. Joe Foss shot down over 20 aircraft in World…

He is a man not without a sense of humor, also. The second time I guess I had an engagement with General Yeager was the very first time I was able to join the American Fighter Aces Reunion. There had been no new fighter ace in almost 30…

there is another guy who preceded all these people that we have talked about. He is a guy who, in this city, was actually taken to court-martial at one point because he told the United States, when he was a U.S. officer, a General officer…

there is a movie that I saw recently which depicted three actors who became troubleshooters and helped to save a small town in Mexico. The name of the movie was ``The Three Amigos.'' As I recall, they had a slogan that wherever there was…

In that great book, ``The Bridges at Toko Ri,'' one of James Michener's main characters was the commander of an aircraft carrier. After the hero in the book had flown off against those bridges at Toko Ri in North Korea and been lost, he…

I think it is clear one last time to point out that there are 6,500 chemical bombs that Iraq will not give up, it has not disarmed; a couple of thousand chemical rockets; and 8,500 liters of what is known as biological media for the…

6,500 chemical bombs, which is roughly 1,000 tons of deadly chemical; 2,000 chemical rockets, 8,500 liters of biological agent or medium, and that is enough to produce some 5,000 liters of anthrax; these weapons are the weapons which Chief…

It is obvious from the conversations and statements that have been made here in recent minutes past that this evening's consideration of this particular conference report is surrounded by what I think is an understandable controversy on…

I would say in doing some research into the Gulf War Syndrome and the potential of what I consider to be the actual blow back of agents that went over American troops, that the release of those agents would certainly be considered to be an…

Mr. Speaker, I hope that we are at the end of a long and difficult struggle that has been engaged in by Democrats and Republicans on this most bipartisan of measures, which is the defense bill passed by the House and now by the Senate and…

The language of the provision is absolutely clear on that point. In subsection (c), it is expressly stated that the interim period of legislative exemption ends ``on the date on which the Secretary of the Interior publishes in the Federal…

One category for disability that is compensable is for disabilities that are caused by an instrumentality of war. Just like the Agent Orange spraying that was done in Vietnam was, in my estimation, an instrumentality of war which was meant…

in 1991 when we went into Iraq, we thought, our best projection was that he was 3 to 5 years away from having a nuclear device. We found out when we got there that he was actually only 6 months to a year away from having a nuclear device…

Madam Speaker, truly one of the most profound powers bestowed upon this or any other Congress is the authority to send our American men and women into armed conflict. The loss of human life that invariably attends every war, no matter how…

I just want to say at this time, this has been an exercise in which we have had to move expeditiously; but the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Stump), our chairman, and the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Skelton), our ranking member, have really…

I want to address just one point from my friend from Ohio, and that is that the combat air patrols that are listed in the bill and in the report are listed as Operation Noble Eagle, which is combat air patrols over the United States, over…

Mr. Speaker, on July 18, the House Committee on Armed Services reported out the bill presently before the House, H.R. 4547, on a near unanimous vote of 50 to 1. To understand what this bill does, allow me to first provide a bit of…

I heard the gentleman's discussion on the floor about the code talkers and their value to the U.S. military efforts, and I just wanted to add my voice in support for the gentleman's bill. We knew one of the great code talkers, Carl Gorman…