Brian Higgins

I am here to urge you, in the strongest possible terms, to double the nation's commitment to cancer research.

But the federal government's commitment is not keeping pace with the needs of the scientific community nor the demands of the constituents we serve.

I implore you to include in a budget resolution a doubling of cancer research because these budgets, they do not only fund important programs, they are value statements.

I call on you today to craft a budget resolution that projects a doubling of funding for cancer and biomedical research over the next five years.

The only failure in cancer research is when you quit or are forced to quit because of lack of funding.

Information sharing is an integral part to our Nation's security.

We need specificity. We need the Government to have a clear-cut definition of the programs and activities that are most important to the homeland security mission.

I second the request to have the pre-inspection station at the Peace Bridge.

I want to associate myself with the prospective comments of my colleague, Kathy Hochul, in asking to replace the outdated Niagara Falls Border Patrol station.

We are also sending jointly from myself and Congressman Higgins and our Senators a letter to you urging to find the funds in your budget for this idea of a customs and border inspection station at the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station.

The bigger picture of this is to ensure that our National security and our economic security are tied together.

I will start by disagreeing with Dr. Campbell when he says that support for these trade deals is bipartisan here in Congress.

To assume that continuing to do what we have done will yield to a different result is the definition of insanity.

It would seem illogical that we are both financing the Chinese expansion and then we are financing the response, but it is not illogical at all from the standpoint of corporate profits.

If you look, instead, at Congress having a Wall Street Party and a Main Street Party, it is only the former that supports these trade deals.

It is time for us to realize we have run out of time.

We can only imagine what a nuclear weapon would do. We would see terrorism with impunity on a massive scale.

Hezbollah, the Party of God, is a Shia Muslim group committed to violent jihad.

I am pleased to see that President Obama and leaders around the world have called on Bashar al-Assad to step down.

one of the most influential forces in the entire world, the Arab Spring of last year, amazingly was an 83-year-old retired professor, former Harvard professor by the name of Eugene Sharp.

I strongly disagree. The U.S.

When we get bipartisan support we can conquer anything.

We have spent $63 billion in reconstructing Iraq. The past performance doesn't inspire great confidence.

Since 2003, we have spent $8 billion training the Iraqi police, approximately $1 billion a year.

The fact of the matter is when the surge was undertaken, it was designed to tamp down violence to give some breathing room for the Iraqis, Sunni, Shia, the Kurds to do political reconciliation.