national defense is in crisis. We are going to be 18,000 sailors short this year in the U.S. Navy. We are going to be 700 pilots short in the Air Force. We are short on basic ammunition in the Army and the Marine Corps. Our equipment is…

equal justice means two things. First, every citizen, including the least powerful, like the plaintiff in the first civil case in which President Clinton perjured himself, has a right to demand truthful testimony under oath even when the…

I have come to a totally different conclusion from the esteemed minority leader and others who feel that troops will be demoralized if we do not stop this constitutional process. I think just the opposite. From talking with them and with a…

That means out of 10 aircraft that are on the line when you call for them to do their mission operation to carry out their mission, only about 60 percent, a little over 60 percent of those aircraft are capable of doing it, and that is…

I want to thank him and all the others who worked for a strong national defense in this emergency supplemental. It is very, very critical. I would simply ask him to talk a little bit about the fact that the North Koreans now have an ICBM…

We now have had 43 of them crash, at least according to my estimates and my reports, this year. That is almost more aircraft than we are building but it also claimed about 70 lives. The Navy reports that they have more crashes this year…

Actually the Department of Defense is about 50 percent people. That means that not only the soldiers, the sailors, the airmen, the marines who serve this country, but also the many people who back them up. That means people who repair…

I talked yesterday about the problems with national security that are now becoming acknowledged, not only by Members of the Congress, but also, for the first time in four years, by the President himself. Now that the President has admitted…

I have a graph here that shows the G7, that is the big nations of the world, the big western democracies and their net exports to Mexico before and after NAFTA. That includes the United States. We call this chart ``Find the dummies,''…

The first question in the cartoon was, which country's missile technology has the Clinton administration most improved? And the second part of the cartoon was, Communist China's. [...] It is not in our interest for the Long March missile…

My friend makes a great point, and there is one other thing that we have done for every union worker and every nonunion worker in this country, and it was done by Presidents Reagan and Bush, and that is that we built a military that was…

I remind him that a couple of years ago, I think it was 1987, when the Israelis were building the Lavi fighter or embarking on the Lavi fighter program, which was kind of a mid-range fighter aircraft that they thought they needed, the…

one other thing I wanted to comment about today, because it is coming up on the House floor, is so-called fast track, and I just want to tell my colleagues why I do not think this President, this administration, should be entrusted with…

Maybe they think, I would say to my colleague, maybe the Clinton administration thinks that they can talk those missiles down with the Japanese.

Most of the Navy Theater Wide funding to date has gone to support the new interceptor required to destroy incoming ballistic missiles. Additional funding for radar development is needed to assure that the system is capable of detecting and…

I have already made a statement during the rule debate, but let me just say again that this bill need to be passed. It is a bare minimum. It is a starting point. Today, after years of our committee telling the President that we are…

In essence, this date is direction to the Navy to get started now on a radar development program in a way that best supports the Navy Theater Wide.

we are in a race, and the participants in the race, along with the United States of America, are nations like North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Communist China, and to some degree, Pakistan and India. The other participants in this race seem to…

It is important, obviously, to have what is called human intelligence. That is, when a group of terrorists are planning to bomb an embassy or do something else that takes life and property, it is good to know ahead of time what is going to…

I agree with the gentleman very strongly that, when we have a State-sponsored terrorism where assets and resources are funneled to terrorists to kill people around the world, in many cases Americans, it only makes sense to deter that type…

when just a couple of days ago the Iranians tested an intermediate range ballistic missile, one that has the range to strike Israel, our administration was once more embarrassed, because they had predicted a number of times that the…

Mr. Speaker, a lot has been made about the label of this debate. Is it over "normal trade relations" or is it over "Most-Favored-Nation status?" In reality, it is over $64 billion. It is a $64 billion question, because we send to China $64…

My colleagues, we have a real opportunity here to do three things that are very important. One is we have an opportunity to right what is perhaps the worst environmental disaster in our Nation, and that is the continuing pollution and…

in the spirit of compromise, however, the gentleman did provide language and we did put in, I would say to the gentleman, his precise language. Now, let me go to the second point, and that point is the 18 months. We had a 12-month period…

I want to tell my colleagues first about part of that compromise. A number of the groups that have written in saying they have some problems with the bill, and the first biggest problem has been taken care of, and that was using the Land…