Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise to urge Members to vote ``yes'' on S. 1124, the revised fiscal year 1996 National Defense Authorization Act, and point out that this is just another example of how Members on our side have reached out and tried to cooperate with this administration. The White House and a minority of Members in the House and Senate have objected to the original conference bill because for the first time Republicans committed this country to the actual deployment of effective missile defense systems. I have to say that an article from the New York Times today, page A3, which has been referred to earlier, discusses a veiled threat from China to bomb Los Angeles by way of missiles. I am absolutely shocked that the administration and certain Members in this House and the other body would try, would actually leave this country defenseless against such a threat to the continental United States. I want to put the administration on notice that these concessions on missile defense policy are only temporary, and they are made because we do need this entire bill.”