Sue Myrick: “As a member of the committee now for 6 years, I want to say a special word of thanks to the chairman of the committee…”

“As a member of the committee now for 6 years, I want to say a special word of thanks to the chairman of the committee, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Goss). This will be the last bill that he will present to the House of Representatives, as he is retiring from the House at the end of this year. It is a great, great loss for the House of Representatives. I know it is a great loss for the people of Florida, who he represents, and it truly is a great loss for the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the intelligence community. As someone who served in the CIA prior to coming to the House of Representatives, he has done as good a job as anyone on the committee, and certainly been an exemplary Chair of the committee. We all owe him a great debt of gratitude for the time and energy and devotion that he has given to the intelligence community, to the CIA, to people, men and women, all over the world who work so hard to collect the information and do the good professional work. He has been dedicated to them, he has been dedicated for them. And so I say congratulations to Porter Goss, and I think all House Members should do that for the work that he has done for the House and for the intelligence community.”