CHARLES W. DENT

Congress must reauthorize VAWA to prevent more innocent Americans from becoming victims and to provide critical services for those who do. Further delaying this crucial legislation does this Congress no credit and leaves State and local…

I just believe the American people deserve better of this committee and this process.

I am just enormously disappointed that we are having this discussion because you are telling me for the record that this was not designed in any way to undermine the good faith bipartisan negotiations on the immigration reform.

I think withdrawing that controversial information collection request, the ICR from OMB, is a good step forward for CFATS leadership.

In conclusion, this amendment has bipartisan support. As I said, our former colleague, Bart Gordon, who was a cosponsor, introduced this bill along with me last session. Mr. Langevin is a cosponsor of the bill, Mr. Matheson, Mr…

The only thing I would like to say in response, once again, is this immunity protection only applies to care provided under EMPALA, and that's federally mandated care. Other activities going on in that emergency room or trauma center would…

Just very briefly in answer to my colleague's comments, I want to say very briefly that this does not waive liability. It simply says that when care is federally mandated under EMTALA that there will be Federal liability protection…

This medical liability crisis has had serious implications in my State of Pennsylvania. It's time we act on this issue. I live in a State where we train a lot of doctors, but we can't retain them and we can't recruit them. It's a very…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 9, after line 20, insert the following: (I) ``National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants…

This is a very serious public health issue and it is just getting worse by the day.

I do want to work with this committee to try to help make this formula more equitable.

I believe the ball is in the Palestinians' court, and any Security Council products criticizing Israel on something of miniscule importance or that is important to some dictator, some totalitarian is not in the U.S. national interests.

In September of 2009, the U.N. Human Rights Council issued a report falsely accusing Israel of committing war crimes during Operation Cast Lead.

I can't imagine that this committee would support writing blank checks to any of these institutions.

I think if we can reinvest more up front in designing a greater percentage of our contracts as fixed price contracts, then we know what we are getting.

We are standing with the Libyan people as they brave the bombs and bullets to demand that Qadhafi must go now without further violence or delay.

And our very fine commander, David Petraeus, I met with him in Florida a few months ago. He said, on January 25, ``It was in Kandahar that 9/11 attacks were planned. It was in training camps in eastern Afghanistan where the initial…

We always expect the Secret Service to take a bullet for the president. We don't expect the Secret Service to take a bullet for the president's staff.

If so, then why does the TSA have literally dozens of security directives issued without any opportunity for public notice or comment?

I would be remiss if I didn't take this opportunity to express my disappointment in the now infamous report which indicated returning veterans might be more susceptible to radicalization.

Does he have to kill somebody first before we get him out?

I do rise today to support H.R. 1333, the Civil Air Patrol Homeland Security Act of 2007. And this legislation, which I introduced on March 6, 2007, has the bipartisan support of 56 Members of Congress. H.R. 1333, as amended, would require…

I think that really says it all. Everybody agrees, both Republican and Democrat alike agree that the intelligence product is being degraded. This really isn't a partisan issue. It should not even be an ideological issue. This is simply an…

The fact that this intelligence product is being degraded should be alarming to every single American. The fact that we're debating this this evening, knowing that we may not be getting vital intelligence or information I think should be…

If there are two insurgents or two terrorists in Iraq talking to each other by cell phones, what appears to be a wireless communication, one to the other, it's likely that that call will be routed through the United States, hit a wire, and…