Political Quotes

“this amendment I think is noncontroversial and has been worked out previously with the distinguished chairman and the ranking member who have supported this. It is to establish a civilian linguist reserve corps. First of all, I am very grateful to the co-sponsors of the amendments the gentleman from Nevada (Mr. Gibbons) who is extremely knowledgeable on these linguist issues and who has been very helpful in crafting this amendment; the gentleman from California (Mr. Farr) who has worked very diligently on language issues and has a distinguished institute in his State; the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Reyes) and a member of our committee; and also Jim Bamford, who has also come up with some ideas. I am also very grateful to the staff on our committee. We have said how many times how professional and dedicated and talented they are, Chris Barton on the majority side and Chris Healey on our side have been very helpful to us. This amendment requires the Secretary of Defense acting through the National Security Education Program to prepare a report on the feasibility of establishing a civilian linguist reserve corps comprised of individuals with advanced skill levels in foreign languages.”