On the recordSeptember 16, 2014
I thank the chairman. Mr. Chairman, I acknowledge the tremendous leadership that you have given to this Nation. I am grateful for what you have done as a servant in our Congress to protect this Nation, to provide the security that is needed, and I admire you greatly for your work. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of this amendment. This amendment is critical to begin the needed process to destroy ISIS. Yes, it is limited in scope of what the President has designated the Congress to approve, but it is necessary. We must convey to the world our commitment to destroy ISIS, the gravest threat that we have ever seen in the history of this country. But a grave threat, Mr. Speaker, requires a commitment, a thorough commitment, to make sure the job is done. What we are doing today is limited in scope, but yet it is very important. We cannot, however, have a commitment that is limited, we cannot have the mindset of a Neville Chamberlain, who never recognized the threat and the force of Adolf Hitler in Germany. We have an enormous threat before us today. The President gratefully acknowledges the threat. However, he has been long in coming to that reality of what we face in the world today. {time} 1745 Yes, he did stand down on missile defense in Poland and Czechoslovakia. Yes, he did stand down our military to the lowest levels since World War II.…
