Dan Burton

I would like to commend NASA and President Jammeh for their cooperation, and I strongly encourage them to continue to work together in the future.

Banjul International Airport (BIA) boasts an ultra-modern $10 million passenger terminal, a new nine-floor Air Traffic Control Tower, newly installed security systems, and upgraded airfield lighting and navigation systems.

Mr. Fox is a defense security analyst at the Department of Defense; and in October of 1997, he was asked to write a national security assessment about Communist China and about the agreement for cooperation in the peaceful uses of atomic…

I will not take much time, but there has been some disturbing things that have come to my attention in the past couple of days that I think the Members ought to be aware of. One is that we sent subpoenas to the White House asking the…

But we are convinced that this kind of repressive action is being taken by State, and I hope that when the gentleman does the final appropriation in conference that the gentleman will let the State Department know that this kind of action…

The United Nations has a very valued State Department employee that has worked over there for a long time named Linda Shenwick, and Ms. Shenwick has brought to the attention of a number of Members of Congress waste, fraud, and abuse at the…

But during that period of time, the lady in question is out of her job without any income, and she has a family. So the case could drag on for a long period of time, and she is suffering severe penalties because of that. So it seems to me…

this is not an isolated case. We had four whistleblowers before my committee just recently, all of whom have either been threatened or chastised for talking to Congress about problems that have occurred in their agencies. Ms. Shenwick's…

Mr. Chairman, the previous speaker talked about India's minister of oil and gas, and he said that India was only going to allow that loan if the U.N. said that it was all right. The fact of the matter is India's minister of oil and gas…

Inaccurate information. Human Rights Watch. My colleagues, I hear them quoting from them all the time. Amnesty International, I hear my colleagues quoting them all the time. They quote them all the time. They sit over there, and they smile…

The logic that we have used with China is that China is so big, and they are a nuclear power, we have to stay engaged with them. We cannot criticize them. We cannot do anything but appease them because it might lead to a conflict down the…

I hope that President Aleman and his finance minister heard what the chairman said tonight.

Mr. Speaker, today the Independent Counsel statute expires. There has been a real heralding by many people in the legal community for the demise of this law. I would like to tonight talk just a little bit about that law and why something…

Indiana has a proud tradition of honoring those who have sacrificed so much to preserve our freedom. We must never forget that our freedom is not free.

I encourage all of my colleagues to visit Indianapolis and see this newest jewel of our city and State. It is something that you will not soon forget.

In the words of Mr. Hodowal, this memorial serves two purposes: 'It's an opportunity to say thanks for the sacrifices [these men] made, and it's a chance to show the next generation what real heroes look like . . . to show that ordinary…

No, the problem has been exacerbated by the espionage that has taken place, as I alluded to a few minutes ago. The thing that really concerns me is the head of the National Security Council, Sandy Berger, who was briefed about this in…

That is great. I am glad he did. But the point is we have got a similar situation today, and they do not want a vote of the Congress of the United States. Why? Why is it that it was important back then and it is not important now? We are…

Let me just say to my esteemed colleague, when the President sent our troops into Bosnia, he said they would be out in 6 months. It has now been over 3 years, and we have spent billions of dollars. That is why many of us were very…

I think that Louis Freeh and the FBI were trying to do the best that they could. They went to the Justice Department four times asking for electronic surveillance on Mr. Wen Ho Lee, the man who was involved in the espionage, or allegedly…

The proliferation of nuclear weapons is growing at a rapid rate, and with this technology going to the Chinese communists, I do not know if they are going to let it out or not, but the fact is they have been selling a lot of advanced…

my committee, the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, of which I am chairman over the past 2 rac{1}{2} years, has been investigating illegal campaign contributions that came in from a variety of countries around the world. Came…

that is absolutely correct. However, this administration, for whatever reason, from top to bottom, is guilty of either just mishandling all of this or worse. I do not know what it is. But we need to get to the bottom of it because this…

We found out under Hazel O'Leary, the previous head of the Department of Energy, that she relaxed, cut the budget for security, cut the security force to such a degree that the head of intelligence for the Energy Department was really…

It is staggering,'' he said. ``I am still in shock here,'' a senior analyst and nuclear weapons expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council said. He said, ``If someone had access to Lee's,'' that is the fellow who was involved in the…