Political Quotes

“the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Kucinich) is a friend of mine. He and I traveled to Vienna last year to try to write an end to the Kosovo conflict. I have respect for him. I also have respect for the members that sit on the Committee on Armed Services; the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Skelton); my friend, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Pickett); the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Sisisky). We went through this bill after literally hundreds of hearings over the course of the last several months and came up with a solidly bipartisan bill that passed out of committee 51 to 1. The only member that opposed the bill was a Republican who objected to the bill because of the nuclear waste provisions and the impact on his own State. In this subcommittee there were no amendments raised of this type. In fact, our effort on missile defense has continually been bipartisan. Mr. Speaker, I know Ted Postol. I do not know whether my colleague does. I know what his feelings are on missile defense. The article in today's paper is not new. He has been arguing against missile defense since I have been in Congress. I work with Ted Postol. I try to convince him and work with him. We should not vote on a motion to recommit and end years of research and technology development because of one article in one paper that no one else, my good friend, agrees with.”