Timothy Roemer: “we have sons and we have daughters of America in Apaches, in F-16s, in submarines, fighting for principle and fighting…”

I rise to express my serious reservations about H.R. 5005, creating the new Department of Homeland Security. On the occasion of this historic vote, I wish to express my concerns about the Administration's proposal and implementing…

I want to emphasize that we can quantify results in a number of ways, but there is one metric we can't account for, and that is the number of lives that have been saved.

I offer an amendment which is bipartisan, by Democrats and Republicans, to create a bipartisan commission, a blue ribbon commission, to look back at what happened prior to 9-11 and fix the problems, not through a political witch hunt, not…

I would just engage the majority leader a little bit further on this particular bill in saying that the committee reported this unanimously out of the committee a month and a half ago in a bipartisan fashion after we worked very hard on…