Roscoe Bartlett

It is unthinkable that we would cut defense to the point that we are really affecting our national security.

Our deficit is several hundred billion dollars more than all the money we vote to spend.

Mike Mullins said that the biggest threat to our national security was our national debt.

What is the greater threat to our national security? This debt which may bury us?

Just in closing, Mr. Chairman, the market will not take care of peak oil. Remember I said it here.

I continue to be concerned that we spend billions of dollars on weapon systems only to change the underlying requirement and terminate the program.

China is now very aggressively buying oil reserves all over the world.

We have only 2 percent of the world's oil. We use 25 percent of the world's oil.

Sir, when I was a little boy, my mother impressed on me that an intent to deceive was the same thing as a lie.

I am a huge supporter of research and early R&D. You never know, if you don't try, what will come of it.

I welcome this hearing. I hope that Congress will follow the recommendations of numerous authorities and approve reducing this ratio.

I recognized that this disparity which discriminated against lower income individuals who more often use crack was not justified by the effects of crack compared to powder cocaine and I introduced a bill to address it.

I hope that my colleagues will not allow the pursuit of the perfect to prevent the potential adoption of a compromise that would reduce the unjustified current 100 to 1 disparate ratio in the treatment of crack compared to powder cocaine.

For too many years unjustified disparate treatment of crack and powder cocaine has had a racially disproportionate and unjust impact upon our poor people and minority communities.

I recognized in 2002 that this ratio that had been adopted in haste and driven by fear was not justified by the facts.

If we are going to continue to expect so much from our Reserve forces, then we not only must--not only must we properly equip them, but we must equip them with modern equipment.

We train as we fight.

We don't have experience with losing the infrastructure in a country with 300 million people, most of whom don't live in a way that provides for their own food and other needs.

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