This total project, including the Salton Sea and the New River, is going to create one of the biggest wetlands in the United States. This is great news for people that love wildfowl and waterfowl and all the bird species. There are some…

Mr. Speaker, let me give my kudos to a great athlete, one of the greatest athletes who ever resided in the county of San Diego where I live... Billy Casper is one of the greatest golfers who ever lived on the face of the Earth. He had a…

let me add my strong support to that of the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young) and the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spence), and on behalf, I think, of the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States in all the services…

this does not affect or change the ability of the government to bundle contracts. But we want the GAO to look at that also, the idea of loading up or bundling contracts.

there is concern. Because when we move to a credit card system, the government buyers are under an obligation to try to look at the entire market, the entire array of sellers to the best of their ability. They are required to try to be…

this just says if you are stationed around the world and you may have been renting your home out for two of the last five years because of the extraordinary demands on uniformed service people, you can designate that home as your place of…

At the end of title XII (page 253, after line 3), insert the following new section: SEC. 1206. PROHIBITION ON EXPORTS AND REEXPORTS OF SATELLITES TO CHINA. (a) In General.--No satellites of United States origin (including commercial…

I am kind of surprised at the gentleman's tirade here, because this gentleman never mentioned money, never mentioned treason, rarely mentioned the President. And when I went over the litany or the chronology of missile launches, I started…

Oversight or the primary review of the satellite transfers has now been taken away from the Department of Defense, who look at it from a national security standpoint, and given to the Department of Commerce, which arguably does not have…

Mr. Speaker, let me say he has gotten beaten up a little bit over this rule. Let me tell Members something that the chairman did insist on that was very important from a national security standpoint. That is that he has allowed and the…

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…

Mr. Chairman, we have spoken about this amendment for some time now during this debate. I think most of the folks that are listening to the debate understand the problem. The problem is that there is an inextricable link between the…

This has been a thankless year for this committee, because we have been forced to preside over the decline of America's defenses, a very dramatic decline. Anyone who looks at this chart and looks at the various functions, mandatory outlays…

I just wanted to remind him and remind my colleagues that the reason I am the chairman of that Procurement Subcommittee is because one of my dearest friends in the world... the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spence), the chairman of…

With respect to China, China is trying to step into the superpower shoes that were left by the Soviet Union, and I think their intent toward the United States is best manifested by the fact that their most recent purchases from Russia have…

Our motto is that we are going to keep working and we are going to try to build that budget back up to where it should be so that we do a service rather than a disservice to the folks in uniform.

the forest almost gets lost for the trees. Seven hundred forty-eight illegal votes were found by clear and convincing evidence. Now I, like a number of other Members, sat down and got debriefed by the committee and that was my question…

Some Members of the media have accused Bob of believing in ethnic differences and in oppressing ethnic groups who want to register and vote. So here is a guy who went to Mississippi when it was not very popular to go to Mississippi, to…

I think if Bob was here, he would say to us, ``You ain't seen nothing yet,'' because Bob Dornan still possesses all those great talents and that great heart for America. He has a lot of wonderful kids and grandkids, and I am privileged to…

And I say to my friend, he cared not only about what kind of equipment our military people used, but he also really cared about those people. When we lost the Rangers in Somalia a couple of years ago, there was one member of the Committee…

While he represented his people and his constituency, he never let his principals be pushed aside by a poll. We have the media always telling us polls are a bad thing in this country, and you should not always stick your finger up in the…

I think the interesting point of this is that the very point of criticism that the Clinton administration official made about the Marine Corps is really in essence their strength. The Marine Corps is a service that did not bend to the…

as we stand on the eve of the debate on fast track that is the giving of a major part of our constitutional power to the President and the Vice President and his negotiating team to negotiate trade arrangements with other nations, I think…

The bill is logical, it is reasonable, it is prudent and it is in total accord with the Taiwan Relations Act. There is no faulty logic that I can see, internal logic flaw that the gentleman from Indiana says there is. Reading the part of…

it is the understanding I have, and I have asked some of our experts on this, the missiles that China is evolving right now outstrip the capability of PAC-2 and PAC-3.