Political Quotes

“I do want to acknowledge the Technical and Tactical Subcommittee and the work done by Mr. Heck and also Mr. Schiff. I have served with Mr. Schiff for years on the Intelligence Committee, and he has been very focused on the technical area, which is extremely important to our national security. Mr. Speaker, in closing, it took a long time for us to get to this point here today. We spent days in important hearings analyzing the intelligence community, making sure that we focused on what the intelligence community needed. We knew, as this country has an issue with respect to the deficit, that we had to do some cutting. It's not about cutting; it was what to cut. And we wanted to make sure that the cuts that we made in this intelligence bill, working as Republicans and Democrats, would not affect the mission for the national security of our country. We spent time before the bill passed, hours and hours, working, staff working, coming together. And what's very unique, also, about this committee is that both the Democrat and the Republican staff worked very closely together, and I hadn't seen that in the past as a member of this committee for over 9 years right now. And that's one of the main reasons that we have such a great, effective staff that work together as a team, to come together to make sure that we did what we had to do. {time} 0940 Now we are here today to finish the job.…”