Norman D. Dicks: “Well, I think the relevance is: Why are we here working on this piece of legislation at this time when we are on the…”

You don't fix the roads, you're going to drink the roads.

The gentleman from New Jersey has my assurance we will work with him on this issue. And I would just say that our chairman has been a great leader on this issue. No one has done more than Bill Young on this. I look forward to working with…

Tom believed in and practiced civility, and bipartisanship.

I, too, echo the gentleman's interest in the field of directed energy and solid-state laser technology. With the threats and environment that the warfighter and the intelligence community are facing, the addition of new technologies that…