Daniel Ortega is probably sitting in an empty room right now in Nicaragua with an old copy of the Los Angeles Times predicting that he was going to win this election in one hand, and a ``Dear Commandante'' letter from the more liberal…

I was listening to them back in my office, and that is why I came over also, to pay tribute to Jerry. A number of folks have talked about Jerry's countenance and his optimism and his appearance. And he was impressive because he had that…

I think that one thing that Rush Limbaugh did, he was a great leader with respect to ideas, very creative. But I think also like a lot of other great radio talk show hosts, I think he developed a lot of his ideas by listening to people…

I am reminded that Rush Limbaugh taught the American people to laugh at Washington, D.C., and the self-righteousness of the liberal program was something he just delighted in shredding. He made us think and be creative. The gentleman from…

I think it is very possible that he got his wisdom from the American people, and I think he got a lot of it just from everyday folks who, in many ways, are a lot smarter than a lot of the folks in this city.

Rush Limbaugh and others like him introduced into the national forum something we did not have when we had the three networks and the big newspaper chains, and that is called debate. Rush Limbaugh would debate with people who called him…

Let me just say I would be happy to work with the gentleman, with Democrat and Republican Members, and with the administration, to try to persuade them that keeping all our bombers in the air is the way to go.

this is a bill in which we generally have some fairly hotly contested issues. It is a bill in which Members voice strong opinions because national security issues evoke strong opinions. But all of us understand now that we have a major…

Ronald Reagan in 1985 had a very major defense bill. That was the height of the buildup, the rebuilding of America's Armed Forces. That bill in today's dollars was $452 billion. Today's bill is a little over $340 billion. That means that…

Very simply, if we look at the experience of Desert Storm, I think that carries out not only the importance of having deep strike aircraft but also deep strike aircraft with stealth. We analyzed at the time the two B-2 bombers, for…

I think that this strike on the United States has given a great deal of credibility to this message that we have been sending to the Russians, that we have not only a real threat, but we have obviously the supreme national interest of…

I still think that most Americans do not realize what we have done with that capability, because I just left the buildings in San Diego where, during World War II, we built bombers at a rate that was remarkable. We built a bomber aircraft…

I just want to add my thoughts on the B-1 fleet, the idea that we have been so short of money the last several years that we have been like a farmer who has three hay balers and he cannot afford to keep all three of them running, so he…

Mr. Speaker, we are giving the President the power to conduct a war. We need to also give him, along with that power, the resources to conduct not only a war that could take a short period of time, but a war that could be enduring. Right…

I wanted to talk for just a couple of minutes following the eulogy and the little memorial discussion that we had with respect to our old friend Floyd Spence who really represented the idea that you needed to have a strong national defense…

I hope the administration works with the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Saxton), who is chairman of the Subcommittee on Military Construction in the Committee on Armed Services to come up with some new ways to buy military housing for…

I believe you have to be prepared. I think 'be prepared' is the key position that the U.S. should take, because if you look at the forces that we used against Saddam Hussein, many of those forces came out of Europe. Those were forces that…

That is absolutely right. I think the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Weldon) is going to speak later on on this trip that he took across the bases in this country and reviewing all of the deferred maintenance, the potholes on the…

We are going to try to do a lot of things with what we have, with the $18 billion in extra spending that we anticipate this year above and beyond what we call the ``Clinton baseline.'' But that $18 billion, once again, does not come close…

I recall when a number of us went down a few days ago to the memorial service in South Carolina, I thought one of the great parts of the eulogy when Floyd's doctor who did the double lung transplant read the nurses' notes that were…

I had a personal experience with my chief of staff who had what was diagnosed as incurable cancer, had a gatekeeper problem, and I became one of the first cosponsors of the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Norwood) when he initiated his initial…

I have taken the floor a number of times over the last 8 years during the Clinton administration strongly criticizing the Clinton administration for what I consider to be a weakening of our national security. We had budgets that annually…

in 1941, about 6 months before Pearl Harbor, our former colleague Carl Andersen said that at some point in the near future we might be engaged in battle with a Japanese fleet. And if that occurred, we would be fighting a Navy whose ships…

What it does speak to is a technological challenge that we gave lots of people, many of whom make great sacrifices to work in the uniform of the United States or who go to work everyday in various places around this country, working either…

Mr. Speaker, Americans sometimes do great things. At 11:09 p.m. Eastern Standard Time last Saturday, the work of some 35,000 Americans, including service personnel from the Air Force, the Navy, the Coast Guard, and the Army combined to…