Andrew P. Hunter

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…

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…

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 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…

Mr. Speaker, to conclude this debate, we are saying to the men and women of the Armed Services, to the men and women of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, and all those folks in big and small businesses, the 35,000 people that…

I also have the same concern the gentlewoman has about job losses under PNTR. I think the amendment is an excellent one, and commend it to all of my colleagues.

But let me just say to my colleagues, we have just left the bloodiest century in the history of the world and in American history. It was one in which 619,000 Americans, or more than that number, were killed in combat. We had an incredible…

It is two KC-135 reengining kits. So if some folks that thought they were going to get those and not are not going to get them, give me a phone call. Our office made a mistake on that. We put the items in the wrong column. But we fixed it…

Mr. Chairman, this is a centerpiece of our strategic deterrent. The amount of money we are talking about here is less than 1 percent of the defense budget. With a growing nuclear club around the world, it is important for us to preserve…

Mr. Chairman, I have a Navy document in front of me that I am reading that gives the state of play with these D5 missiles. It states, ``With no D5 production beyond FY 2000, available inventory will only support outfitting of 11 Trident 2…

If this President will close the $13 billion ammunition shortage and supply adequate ammunition to our troops, I will personally join with the gentleman from Missouri in offering any type of a resolution to thank the President for doing…

It is my understanding the Secretary is currently exploring all options to modernize our air mobility forces, including the need to acquire additional C-17s. With respect to selling some of these to our allies, often the answer given to us…

As many Members with Reserve components in their district know, such as the gentleman from California (Mr. Calvert) with March Air Reserve Base, the Nation's Reserve components currently play a very key role in our Nation's air mobility…

Let me just put the playing ground where it is right now. At this point, we have in this bill a provision that makes the President come to the Congress for a supplemental instead of taking Kosovo money out of ammunition accounts, out of…

Let me take back my time for just a minute. I appreciate the gentleman's intent, he is my good friend from Missouri, but the President committing to do it is another step that goes beyond the gentleman's intent. If the gentleman from…

I think the gentleman from Missouri would agree with me that we will have done a great service for the men and women in uniform if in fact the President says, Okay, on top of this year's appropriation and authorization for maintaining the…

I still oppose the gentleman's amendment, but I do want to let him know that that statement was in error.

I just wanted to say, to get my oar in the water here, that this amendment does do what several people thought the base bill does, that is, this amendment would in my understanding immediately stop all operations in Kosovo. That is, it…

I think that makes very, very clear the point of the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spence), which was that the President had put nothing for peacekeeping in this defense bill. So the logical deduction was that any peacekeeping, absent…

I would say to my friend he has raised excellent questions, that this is a subject that we need to sit down and discuss with the Secretary of Energy... If the best standards and the best science has been developed on the outside, let us…

The answer to that is I would say to my colleague that giving polygraph tests is a science that has been built up over the years. The Department of Energy, because this is such an important area, and the gentleman from Indiana has…

First, I think obviously that is a very important part of the integrity of the polygraph examination. It has to be given in a way that is fully communicated to the person who is the subject of the examination and once again that is a part…

People need to know when an aircraft comes in on fire, and this is one thing I learned in San Diego watching our Federal firefighters who handle the jets out there, they have to have incredible training and great equipment to be able to…

Let me say to the gentleman who put together this Guard and Reserve package and does it for the Armed Services Committee, the gentleman has always acted with total integrity and has always met the needs of the services. Unfortunately, we…