W. Weldon

This legislation will pass after July 1, so there is no way that this legislation can apply to a government that exists today because, by the time this legislation is completed, it will be the time frame of October or November or later…

In an interview that Dr. Kay conducted on NBC TV, he was asked to comment on whether it was prudent to go to war. Dr. Kay said, ``I think it was absolutely prudent. In fact, I think at the end of the inspection process, we will paint a…

I will remind my colleague I was the one who took 11 Members of Congress, including five from his side, to Vienna, and the reason was, we did not disagree with the actions against Milosevic. We felt we had not put enough pressure on…

As I have stated before, I do not want to alienate Moldova. The citizens of Moldova are not at fault. They are good people. It is their government that is at fault, and I do not think it is fair that its people suffer. Something must be…

Mr. Speaker, tonight I rise for the major purpose of outlining the results of a trip that I led to North Korea this past weekend, but I want to start out by responding to some of the concerns raised by my colleagues on the other side where…

The point is the gentlewoman has tried to also find the middle ground. And I think not to allow this research by taking the money away is a mistake because, in fact, the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy has announced publicly they are…

I am grateful for the outstanding work the gentleman's done, and I would remind him, when I first came to Congress, and the gentleman was in the majority, he had dismantled the U.S. Fire Administration. He had put the fire academy under…

I would just remind my good friend that it was not his committee that created the fire grant program. It was this gentleman who brokered the fire grant program as an addition to the defense authorization bill. It was not the gentleman, it…

First of all, Mr. Chairman, we are not talking about a new nuclear weapon. That is not the discussion here. We are talking about an attempt to repackage an existing nuclear weapon for a new threat that we have to deal with. We know the…

I did not say that this was added in last night. I said this was not in the Senate bill. That is what I said. And that has, in fact, been said by both sides. I was told that this bill was identical to what the Senate passed and that is in…

I can tell you what I am going to do, I will vote in favor of it and I encourage other people who have been supportive of Shays-Meehan to do the same thing because this is not what we were led to believe. I am voting ``yes.''

I am confused and I am troubled. I have supported Shays-Meehan, and I have opposed almost all of the amendments because I have been told this is a very carefully crafted compromise. Now I find out late last night we have put this provision…

I am proud that this year, even though we had some terrible tragedies here in our country, that we are finally recognizing the true heroes in America. Because they are not in Hollywood, they are not on our ball fields, they are not in our…

Mr. Speaker, I would ask our colleagues to read the text of the material that is in this special order, the additions that we have supplied, and get a full sense of understanding of what 11 Members of Congress did over the past 5 days. We…

I would just add that as we found out that Turkey is a 99 percent Muslim state, yet it is 99 percent behind America and the allies in this effort. That proves the point that President Bush and all of us have been making. This is not a war…

I come from Pennsylvania, and we are having the same concerns that the gentleman from California (Mr. Sherman) has, but our State is doing fine. Perhaps, the State of California should have had its act together before this administration…

I rise in shock and disbelief. I never would have imagined last Wednesday and Thursday as we sat on the conference committee between the House and the Senate working out the differences between our two bills on defense... Unfortunately…

The thing is, it successfully distinguished the decoy from the reentry vehicle, hit it, and knocked it out, which is exactly the challenge we are pursuing. The gentleman just said we cannot do that. We have done it. If the gentleman would…

I am not talking about treaty, but an ABM system that protects 75 percent of the Russian people surrounding Moscow, upgraded three times. Is the gentleman aware of that?

Is the gentleman aware that Russia, which he has alluded to, has an operational ABM system, which he said is not necessary, and they have upgraded it three times? Is the gentleman aware of that?

If the gentleman would know anything about FEMA, none of that money goes to local fire and emergency response. None of it. Not one dime of it. The gentleman needs to get his facts straight.

It is not a matter of if America has an electronic Pearl Harbor, but when. This past year when he came in before our committee, he said that we were at war, in a cyber war, at the very moment he came in, because we were in the middle of a…

What I am saying and what my colleagues are saying, let us have that debate. Let us have a real amendment, not a phony amendment, where we have the President's policies hidden behind the skirts and the uniforms of the men and women in this…

In closing, the gentleman would make a fine fantasy writer for fantasy books. We are dealing in substance here. There have been serious security concerns brought before this Congress by nine of the most solid Members of this institution…