Representative Heather Wilson

If we're trying to fix the intelligence gap, this will not do it. In fact, this will make the intelligence gap wider than it currently is, and I want to explain to my colleagues why. First, and most importantly, this legislation would…

we now have 2 days left before the August break, and I would ask my colleagues to oppose the previous question on this conference report so that we may immediately address the problems in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. We have…

I am aware of specific cases, I think all of us, particularly in the leadership in the House, Democrat and Republican, as well as members of the Intelligence Committee, Democrat and Republican, are aware of the continuing intelligence gap…

I am a big believer in equal pay for equal work, particularly when it comes to women, because that determines what I get in my packet at the end of the week. But I have to say, I don't like this bill. The reason is, I am sitting here…

For those of you sitting in your offices tonight, and for those staff members who are watching this debate, I'd like you to listen real carefully to what I have to say because I think it's important, probably more important than many of…

The reality is that this underlying bill deals with an issue of national security vital to this country, and the most important vital issue that this body must deal with today is to make sure we have the ability to listen to our enemies…

My remarks will be confined to the importance of the point of order and its germaneness. Director of National Intelligence McConnell recently said in testimony to this House that we are actually missing a significant portion of what we…

In January of this year, I introduced the companion to the Senate measure that we're considering today, and I wanted to thank both my colleagues from New Mexico, Mr. Pearce and Mr. Udall, for their support of that legislation. I'm very…

This Energy and Water appropriations bill includes in it the most radical shift in U.S. policy on nuclear weapons that I have seen at least since the mid-1990s, that will lead us either to be forced to return to nuclear testing or to…

the Democrat leadership has blocked several important amendments on this bill, and I will oppose this rule. But there is one that they block that makes absolutely no sense, and it really calls into question the priorities of the majority…

I will admit to the gentleman from California I personally believe that the legal arguments that were presented in favor of the Terrorist Surveillance Program were not strong. They weren't strong at all. And that is why I demanded more…

this is an unusual spending bill, because we are voting to spend money for the military while putting conditions on the use of that money that will make it highly likely that our military will fail. That doesn't make any sense. This bill…

I want to have an honest debate, not for political gain and not one that questions anyone's patriotism, because I believe everyone in this body wants to move this country in the right direction. But I believe the right direction means that…

I have some sympathy with those on the Democrat side of the aisle tonight because you made a promise. You said you were going to implement the 9/11 Commission recommendations, and now you have to at least appear to make good on that…

I would like to start out this evening by correcting a few misstatements. First, the letter that has been referred to a couple of times here by Mr. Sessions and Mr. Webster refers to a bill introduced by Senator Specter in the Senate which…

there are two technical reasons to oppose this motion to recommit, and I do not think that the authors of the motion to recommit were entirely aware of what they would do, but I think the House needs to understand it. First, in the motion…

I would like to start out first by correcting a few misstatements and giving a few facts. The first is that somehow anything less than a warrant on an international phone call erodes civil liberties that we have enjoyed 219 years and does…

I rise today to support the New Mexico Water Planning Assistance Act (H.R. 1711). The New Mexico Water Planning Assistance Act (H.R. 1711) would assist the state of New Mexico with the development of comprehensive state water plans that…

At a government-run boarding school for American Indians in the 1920s, Esther Martinez was not allowed to speak Tewa, her native language. Nor could she listen to the kinds of stories that her grandfather would tell her at her native San…

on rollcall No. 401 I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''

If I am incorrect on that, I apologize, Mr. Stupak. It was my understanding that your bill would require a trigger.

just last month, the Iraqi people, including large numbers of Sunni Iraqis, voted in a referendum on their Constitution. The Iraqi people are choosing to participate in the political process that can eventually undermine support for the…

in the 108th Congress the gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Udall) introduced and we passed through this House legislation almost identical to this and we reintroduced it in this Congress. It has had a companion bill in the Senate which has…

times of tragedy should not be windfalls for opportunists in the wake of Hurricane Katrina gas prices fluctuated to upwards of $6.00 in some communities. Prosecution for price gouging is generally a state matter unless it involves some…

because I attended a BRAC Commission hearing in New Mexico, I missed the vote on final passage of the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2006, H.R. 3010 (rollcall vote No…