Andrew P. Hunter

Mr. Speaker, I just say to the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Skelton) and ranking member on the Committee on Armed Services, that I would hope that the gentleman would discourage Members like the Member who just spoke from using this time…

Let me finish my statement, if I might. We commend the President as Commander in Chief. That is something we did in 1991. Under the Constitution, he leads this military force. We commend the Members of the United States Armed Forces. We…

I think reasonable minds can differ. I would hope that the gentleman would, in the spirit of bipartisan support for people that wear the uniform of the United States, not ask us to have precisely the same words as the other body, and…

Yes. I think one French engineer was killed that way. There was one engineer working on a Saturday or Sunday at the Iraqi site. As I recall, there was one engineer killed. My point is, the world has two faces; one face in which they, too…

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…

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…

I think the gentleman has led into one of our mutual friends and a great hero, Chuck Yeager, a great hero for this century who came out of, as my Dad calls him, the citizen soldiers; and my dad had written recently about how people from…

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…

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…

What we do have is $15.7 billion for DOD. That is $1.7 billion over the President's request. If the gentleman is suggesting that supplemental appropriations bills that come to this floor should never be passed if they have anything…

Just to conclude, Mr. Chairman, this is a three-sentence amendment. When it takes a colloquy to explain what a three-sentence amendment means, we know we are in trouble. This amendment, as it is written, would freeze our present programs…

The problem here is we are not dealing with the amendment as the gentleman from Massachusetts would rewrite it. We are dealing with the amendment as it is written, because that is the amendment that is going to be dealt with by DOD…

Let me just say that there has been a policy among a number of nations in the Western democracies, including our allies, that would respond to chemical or biological attack with nuclear systems. We have never foreclosed that.

I support the Issa amendment, which would make excepted employees of INS employees and give them, I think, more accountability in a very, very serious and very critical position.

I, as all my colleagues know, do not like Fast Track, I do not like free trade. But I like less the idea of weakening this President in this time of great national emergency. For that reason, this time, this once, I am voting yes.

I hope that this is the start of a bipartisan effort to put together a defense bill in the coming year which is adequate to serve our country's needs. Let me just tell my colleagues that from my perspective, and I heard the gentleman from…

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…

We just had an attack by people who did not care about mutually assured destruction.

It did not just happen. It is a function of a lot of great expertise, leadership and technology, and guys in the House of Representatives like Bob Dornan. Bob was one of a kind in supporting that continued superiority of air power. You…

That is true. I think one reason Bob was so helpful on aerospace issues and on military issues and was so good to this House and such a leader in the House is that Bob Dornan loved and appreciated American air power. Somebody mentioned the…

You are probably right; he probably did. We have all seen that the great thing about great Republican Presidents is you continue to love them even when their bureaucracy sometimes does not measure up to their measure of goodness. I think…

That is true. Bob Dornan, I think, went to more States for George Bush than anybody else.

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.

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…