Political Quotes

“It is an excellent bill because it deals with the quality-of-life issues, issues involving pay raise, cost of living, housing, child care, and all those things that are important for our military personnel around the world. It also deals with our readiness problem to make sure our troops are properly prepared. Mr. Speaker, I rise today, however, to ask for the support of our colleagues because it deals in a real way with the two major threats that I think we face over the next several years: that caused from terrorism, and that caused from the proliferation of missiles and weapons of mass destruction. Mr. Speaker, we fully fund increases in the area of terrorism, far above what the administration requested. Long before incidents were occurring in this country, as we have seen this year, it was this Congress, led by this chairman, who had the foresight to put additional funds into chemical and biological technology, into efforts to allow us to better train those civilian personnel around the country who have to respond and better prepare our military.”