Political Quotes

“I rise in an attempt to try to set the record straight on some of the facts for those who have spent the time attending all the classified hearings and briefings and asking the questions of both the intelligence community and the members of the committee. I might say for the 6 years that I chaired the Research Committee, we opened up our briefings and hearings to every member. I do not know how many of those my colleague attended. I know I attended 160. So we can get up on the floor publicly and talk about something, but it is something else to sit in on all the classified briefings and ask the tough questions of the people who are making these decisions. I am not challenging the gentleman's motives because he has the right to do what he thinks is in the best interests of the country, but I also think we need to understand that many of our colleagues have sat through these briefings, and let us clarify some misinformation. First of all, we do not have an adequate testing program. It was this Congress for the past 6 years, 7 years, with an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote that called for more money for testing.”