James M. Talent: “I would prefer that the House do nothing rather than that--better not to act at all then to twist the Constitution…”

The military must also, going forward, engage the entirety of American society.

It just doesn't work if you have taken a subject that ought to be confined to one or two committees and you split it up among dozens and dozens of committees and subcommittees.

We will never remove nuclear weapons from the category of WMD given the nature of such an attack, but may have the opportunity to do so with bio-weapons.

I think the top-level political authority, which you all represent, what is it you want the outcome of this to be and why?