Roscoe Bartlett: “We have appeared here on the floor several times to talk about a subject which is very important to a number of…”

They have 1,300,000 people, 900 million of them in rural areas that through the miracle of communications know the advantages of industrialized economy, and they are saying, Hey, guys, what about us?

Given our alarming and unsustainable national debt, American taxpayers expect and deserve that Congress will make the difficult decisions to restore fiscal responsibility.

I think that it is very unlikely that even if they had a nuclear weapon capable of reaching our shores that they would launch it towards--why would they need to do that if they could simply put a medium-range missile on a ship and launch…

Another element in the discussion as to how much money we will spend in the future on defense is the recognition that our robust defense spending in the past and our willingness to protect has encouraged many of our allies to be quite…