Todd Tiahrt: “on rollcall No. 438 I was inadvertently detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.'' ____________________”

Mr. Speaker, this bill is a terrible bill. It is only allowed 4 hours of debate. We could have had more debate, but according to the Congress Daily P.M., the Speaker of the House is in New York City tonight at a fund-raiser. So we could…

The community of Treece has been trying to bring this issue to resolution for years. In fact, it was over a decade ago when it first came to my attention, and I had a staff member working on it for some time. I am pleased that the…

I want to point out that we did a joint review process of each of these earmarks to make sure that they were within the guidelines of what we have done in past precedence in the House. This particular earmark, like the other earmarks…

Americans are outraged by the Air Force outsourcing our national security to the French. This contract award to a foreign manufacturer is wrong, and it makes us less, not more, secure. We should have known that we had a problem when the…