Mark Kirk

Do you feel that they could pose a systemic risk?

I would hope that we not reinvent the wheel.

I thank the chairman, and recall Chairman Natcher, who always called the bill that was produced by this subcommittee the people's bill.

Our Federal employees can smell fraud faster than anyone else.

Our Federal employees generally are overwhelmingly patriots.

If the Senator will yield, I understand the S-300 has not been delivered, even though the Russians signed a contract to deliver this to the Islamic Republic of Iran. But most of the missile threat to Israel is against Russian-built and…

This may be a seminal moment in the recent history of the Senate. This may be a seminal moment that stops the practice which has moved power all to the appropriators in this body--a few--and taken it away from the rest of us and may return…

Yes. I feel badly about some of those earmarks because I had so much fun with them.

The majority leader of the U.S. Senate would not have taken the action he just took if he didn't have 41 votes to stop this monstrosity.

10 years ago, I had the great privilege and honor to deliver my first speech as a Representative of the people of the 10th District of Illinois. As I end my time in the House of Representatives and begin with the honor of serving the great…

Two Middle Eastern newspapers reported today that Syria has transferred scud missiles to a terrorist group in Lebanon. This repeats actions by Iran and Syria in 2006 when they gave cruise missiles to Hezbollah. It shows that the Syrians…

I, in my experience, sort of see Europe becoming a huge military gas station for onward deployment to Unified Protector or New Dawn operations or Operation Enduring Freedom.

I would just say that we probably spend enough time naming post offices in the House of Representatives during the worst economy in our country----

I will just say that we know the resolution will be defeated. But given the opportunities that it gives Taliban propagandists on the radio, we should ask, Why did the Speaker even schedule such a lopsided debate on this floor?

Comprehensive health care reform must remain an urgent priority of the 111th Congress. But before we move forward on the path to health care reform and the many other critical issues that demand our attention, I respectfully submit that…

I think if they didn't see and feel that effort was real and significant, that it would be difficult to continue to win their support.

I think the Quadrennial Diplomatic and Development Review is a very good idea, long overdue.

Let me compliment you, Senator Lugar and this committee, on the Lugar-Casey bill, which has passed the committee and I hope gains substantial more sponsors and ultimately becomes law.

We would have a radical change in what we have.

It's resolutions like this that weaken the image of this Congress as a serious legislative body. Let's take another look at resolutions like these for what they really are, distractions so that we do not see what is currently happening…

Three blocks from our White House, the World Bank is subsidizing the administration of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Last year the World Bank cut a $220 million check to the Government of Iran. After two U.N. sanctions, the World…

I thank you. And I commend everyone, that if you'd like to learn more about the suburban agenda, you can go on to our website, www.house.gov/Kirk for an outline of the suburban agenda. This is not just an us-only agenda. This is an agenda…

In the State of Illinois, under section 529, which is a charter that allows States to set up college savings program, we call them Bright Start accounts. What does Georgia call its college saving program?

The Internet was largely invented in 1996 after you and I had both completed college. But this is part of our children's growing up. I think this calls for congressional action.

I'm particularly worried because in the recent failed Senate immigration bill there was an amendment put forward to deny documented members of international drug gangs the chance to enter the pathway to citizenship that the legislation…