I get a little nervous talking about saying we got it wrong, because I have had the opportunity, having served on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence now for 3 years, to have met a lot of our men and women involved in this…

I mean, whether it is in Afghanistan where they were under the control of the Russians and the Taliban for 12 years and their per capita income is $150, where they do not have the rule of law, they do not have police agencies in place…

today I want to spend a little bit of time talking about the war on terrorism, and I believe it is a war, tracing the history of the previous administrations and the Bush administration in recognizing the threat that al Qaeda, Iraq, and…

tonight I want to build off the comments of perhaps some of the previous speakers in talking about America is still a Nation at risk. In his new book, Why America Slept, author Gerald Posner raises the possibility that better tactical…

This is a moment of grave determination. We have decided to use force because other means simply have not worked. Saddam's capacity to develop and brandish such armaments poses a threat to international security and peace that cannot be…

What we would like to talk about tonight is the issue of whether America is at war. Were we at war in the 1990s? What was the reaction of the administration in the 1990s? What do we see in the year 2000 and beyond? And what have we found…

In this struggle our adversaries are likely to avoid traditional battlefield situations because there American dominance is well established. We must be concerned instead by weapons of mass destruction and by the cowardly instruments of…

From 1992 to 1999, the intelligence agency, we decreased the number of agents we had in the field by 27 percent, we decreased the number of stations or locations that we had around the world by 30 percent, and we decreased the number of…

Taking back my time, Mr. Shultz goes on to talk about the Clinton administration's desire for preemptive and offensive actions. But they never took the step. Terrorism is a crime, they said. They said we will prosecute it afterwards. We…

candidate Governor Bush in 1999, he echoed the understanding of the threat that President Clinton, Vice President Gore, and others laid out. He called to mind an earlier time when free people were confronted with what he called rapid…

Iraq continues to provide safe haven to a variety of Palestinian rejectionist groups, including the Abu Nidal Organization, the Arab Liberation Front, and the former head of the now defunct 15 May Organization, Abu Ibrahim, who…

here we go on and we go back to President Clinton on February 17, 1998, talking about the kind of environment that we see in Iraq and the kind of folks that we are trying to work on and taking a look at denial and deception. But how did…

One of reasons we are taking this action... is we don't want to see it taken with chemical or biological agents, but we do know that Iraq has been in process of building that kind of capability. But we're looking at the intelligence very…

If I now take a look at the report on global terrorism in 2001, what does it say? In addition, the regime continued to provide training and political encouragement to numerous terrorist groups, although its main focus was on dissident…

There is an interesting article I would like to reference that talks a little bit about what the previous administration did during the 1990s. The article is ``Show Stoppers,'' and it is out of the Weekly Standard, January 26, 2004. It is…

here we have NIE key judgments: In view of most agencies, Baghdad is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program. Here is the interview, or here is his testimony in front of the Senate Committee on Armed Services last week or a week and a…

reclaiming my time, what my colleague is talking about is that in 1995 and 1996 the Clinton administration implemented what was called the Deutsch Doctrine. John Deutsch was the director of the CIA. And, after some things happened in 1995…

the National Intelligence Estimate said, if left unchecked, Iraq probably will have a nuclear weapon during this decade. Here is what Dr. Kay had to say, George Stephanopoulos, October 5, 2003: ``I think if they had, if someone had given…

I think we firmly established that the record clearly outlines that, for the last decade and more, Iraq has been identified as a terrorist regime, dangerous to its neighbors, its own people and the rest of the world. As a matter of fact, I…

I think the record is relatively clear. In many ways, the Clinton administration in the 1990s got the message. After the World Trade Center bombing, after the U.S. barracks bombings, after our embassy bombings, after the USS Cole and as…

Great. I thank the chairman for this clarification of the recognition of the unique problem of the ozone transport into southwest Michigan.

I want to just address some of the concerns that my colleague, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wolf), brought up; and I think we do share the same vision, the same objective in the legislation, because it is part of a test of civilized…

I voted against PNTR, both again for the jobs and because of the persecution that is going on there and because of their military intervention. I believe that we need to protect American jobs here, both from the Chinese; and we need to…

Reluctantly I rise in opposition to the amendment. This is something that my colleagues and I have been working on for a long period of time. The chairman and I were talking as the debate was going on. We do believe that there is some way…

this amendment again addresses the issue that we have been working with the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott), the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wolf) and others on to ensure that workers are engaged in productive and constructive work…