I rise in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment and urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this important legislation. Marriage as the union of one man and one woman is our most basic and fundamental social institution. It is so…

President Clinton's National Security Adviser, Sandy Berger, has admitted to removing highly classified terrorism documents from a secure room during preparations for the September 11 Commission hearings. According to reports, Mr. Berger…

I think this is another critical point. Again, the information that we have to date is that this was not a single occurrence, but this was a pattern on a series of visits that he on multiple occasions inadvertently took documents. Again…

This war on terrorism has evolved through the 1990s. It was not brand-new on September 11, 2001. It started when the World Trade Centers were bombed the first time in the early 1990s, when the Khobar Towers in Saudi were attacked, when our…

We are a Nation at war. We do not know how long it will last, but it is unlikely to be short. We cannot know where or against whom all of its battles will be fought. There are multiple fronts in this war, and there is no single theatre of…

Reclaiming my time, we talk about are we better off. Think about it. It is 1995-1996. We have been attacked a few different times in a few different places around the globe. We know that the organization that is attacking us is a terrorist…

But as a professional, I have the luxury of putting politics aside and focusing on the task at hand. Protecting people from terrorists and criminals while building schools and lasting friendships is a good mission, no matter what brush…

I said, well, obviously, there is plenty of blame to go around. But not only is it the executive branch, and by executive branch I mean generic, not this President, because I agree with my colleague, this President has shown the leadership…

There was some testimony just from the last couple of days in front of the joint inquiry; and it really I think in many ways, from my perspective, boils down to partisan politics, partisan politics at its worst. Because national security…

I love the analogy of play the ball where it lies because that is exactly what President Bush did after 9/11. He went back and took a look at what capabilities we had and the threats that were out there, but never went back to try to…

I am not looking for the media to support the President, it might be nice, or to support the country or to support the direction or support our troops. It would just be nice if they presented a balanced approach, fair and balanced approach…

Let us go attack them in New York and what we will now have is we will now have a safe haven. We can plan out our attacks and we can work on our schedule and when it is appropriate to attack, we will attack. We will now have a safe haven…

Can one imagine what would happen if we pulled out of Iraq and pulled out of the war on terrorism and the next terrorist attack occurred and somebody would come to us and say excuse me, they attacked the World Trade Centers, you looked the…

Because what we saw today, and it is tragic, the loss of American lives, the loss of the foreign civilians in Iraq and what they did with the bodies. But we should have known. Again that phrase, ``we should have known.'' Because here is…

We have looked into the eyes of the Iraqi people. We have shaken their hands. We have heard them speak. We have seen the sincerity. I always say this is not easy. And there are going to be other ugly days and other ugly events. We are not…

Yes, on three different occasions. It was interesting, I talked to one of my soldiers today. He was back in a small town in my community of New Era, Michigan. He just came home after just about a full year in Iraq. He told me what was…

Because he said, when we were in Iraq, he said, we could get CNN. He said, we finally turned it off, because what we saw on CNN had absolutely no relationship to what we were seeing in Iraq. The gentleman from Indiana and I are not denying…

Most importantly, the work that they are doing is taking a look at putting together a series of recommendations that will enable us to improve our intelligence capabilities and improve our response capabilities into the future. As much as…

I was not prepared to talk about Clarke because I am not sure that the whole debate can be dignified by a debate or discussion on the floor of the House. It, from my point of view, is one of the more disappointing things that I have seen…

we have had a wide variety of people come in and testify, and I can tell the Members that one of the things that I really appreciate on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is the seriousness with which individuals on both sides…

Going back to the speech by then-Vice President Al Gore in May of 2000: "As Senator I voted for the use of force, as Vice President I supported the use of force. If entrusted with the presidency, my resolve will never waver." And then…

Everybody would say, of course, that is George Bush, January 2002. No. We have made it clear that it is our policy to see Saddam Hussein gone. "If entrusted with the presidency, my resolve will never waver." Al Gore, May 23, 2000. These…

Iraq is still a very dangerous place. Our troops will tell us that. There are Iraqis who clearly were part of the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein who received and reaped all the benefits of the Oil for Food program, the health care system…

We were there in August and I think even then we also flew over the city and we saw the tremendous amount of commerce, the cars on the roads. Baghdad looked much like a functioning city until you got to some of the compounds where we had…

I think that is a key word that we need to spend time on, maybe not tonight, but that the American people and our colleagues need to think about. Are we really at war? It was not that long ago that we had the opportunity to be at an event…