Norman D. Dicks: “What I am finding in rural areas in my district is that the local people cannot afford to pay back the loans.”

Tom Foley was my friend, mentor, and colleague in the House of Representatives.

The New START Treaty limits the total number of weapon delivery vehicles by 2017. According to the Air Force, they are funded for New START implementation, but are awaiting final force structure decisions to determine numbers of weapon…

I now yield to Suzan DelBene to address the House. Ms. DelBENE. I want to thank Congressman Dicks and Congressman Hastings for the very kind introduction. It's a great honor to be here. Mr. Speaker, Leader Pelosi, members of the Washington…

I was a very strong proponent of the C-17 even when Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach was building this airplane. I had a chance to go there when they were doing the wooden mock-ups and when they brought in the load masters, who made it such…