Pete Hoekstra

The administrative compliance burden siphons resources that should be directed to students.

I am thoroughly confused as to why they would be omitted in this resolution, and their contributions. They are working side by side each and every day with our Armed Forces, and this resolution forgets to even recognize that contribution.

When we talk about the jihadists, they believe that the modern world has forsaken that pure religious life. They believe only in a caliphate governed by shiria law and that is the way to return to that pure life. That is the world they now…

I welcome to this discussion and debate my colleague from the State of Michigan (Mr. Conyers), who is also a great cosponsor of our Federal Prison Industries legislation, which we will consider tomorrow. You have good friends on the…

It is why they are nervous about us pulling our final troops out, because we are the ones that have earned their trust, and they still look to you, and I both hope and pray for the day where the same type of result, as we see in Kosovo, as…

That we could walk down Sniper Alley Sunday night, and that we could walk through the streets of Sarajevo in Bosnia, and that we could walk through the streets of Bosnia on Monday morning, and, you know, that it was a vibrant city, people…

I think I misspoke earlier. I said the troops were in Erbil. They were in Balat. The troops were in Balat.

The other thing, the solder saying, before I leave, they were on space-available because he was not as seriously injured as some other soldiers, he was going on to Germany. I think he was going to leave in the next 24 hours. But said, you…

It is much like what we talk about for some of our domestic policies. The longer we are there propping them up, the more we have the potential of creating a situation of dependency, where they are looking to the U.S. Government to fix…

The political meetings we had, it was very interesting meeting with the Minister of Defense and the Minister of Interior. The difference this time is you are meeting with people who know they are going to be in the job for 4 years. Every…

We will hold a legislative hearing, and we will determine whether there is a consensus in the committee that will enable us to move a bill that would reform FISA and move it to the floor.

I will not use my position as chairman of the committee to block a consensus of the Intelligence Committee to move a bill to the floor.

Zarqawi's document: However, here in Iraq, time is now beginning to be of service to the American forces, harmful to the resistance, for the following reasons. Time is on our side. We are making progress. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to…

This Congress will not walk away from a mission, it will not walk away from its troops, and it will not walk away from its allies. With that, I would like to yield 3 minutes to my colleague from Michigan (Mr. Rogers).

The historic blunder is that we didn't address this problem in the 1990s when it started rearing its ugly head. I yield to my colleague for a unanimous consent request.

This battle continues to evolve. We know that al Qaeda wants to attack us again in our homeland. That is why it is important to stay on the offensive, attacking them where they are and making sure that they do not have a safe haven to…

I rise, reluctantly, to claim the time in opposition to the amendment. The Acting CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Hoekstra) is recognized for 5 minutes.

I thank her for yielding and appreciate the work she has done in putting together this bill. What the indications are and what the colloquy I had with my colleague indicate are that the provisions that were deleted from the bill that we…

I can confirm the chairman's understanding. Neither the responsibilities of NCTC for comprehensive counterterrorism analysis, nor its responsibility for dissemination of information within the Federal Government, will in any way diminish…

I am glad to confirm that the understanding that the gentleman has is correct. The information-sharing environment will serve as a means by which individual agencies, including DHS, can meet their statutory information-sharing mandates. It…

There are a number of people who can move into that position, who can do a very good job. Condi would be at the top of my list.

By creating an Open Source Intelligence Center under the National Intelligence Director to collect, analyze, produce and disseminate open source materials to the intelligence communities, the information becomes a building block for…

This amendment seeks to create an information technology network of immense proportions but without significant resources and no logical or direct correlation to what actually would be needed to share information properly. The amendment…

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…

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…