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?

when we had a problem with the THAAD program, the Members of Congress in both committees, the Committee on Appropriations and the authorization committee, from both sides came together and they said, we do not want to fund programs that do…

I am looking to see if there are subsequent convictions of Loral. Oh, yes. Loral Electric Systems, DeFective pricing, 10/95, $1.55 million. Loral only seems to have two convictions. So under my previous amendment, they would not have been…

I strongly support real steps to protect the American public from nuclear holocaust such as the de-alerting of nuclear weapons, the START process, the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program. And the most significant obstacle to meaningful…

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…

The House committee's report states that major ballistic missile defense programs such as Navy theater-wide are not adequately funded throughout the future years' defense program to achieve timely operational capability. The committee…

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…

I rise in solid opposition to this amendment. We are in no way, shape or form able to meet the needs of our military. The irony here is that we had President Clinton's former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry come before us in January and…

I want to congratulate both he and the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Skelton) for an outstanding bill. It is certainly appropriate that we have named it after the gentleman from South Carolina (Chairman Spence). He is an outstanding patriot…

I read an article in the Tel Aviv newspaper that documented that Russia was trying to sell Israel a brand new defense system called the Antei 2500. I had never heard of this system. I know most of Russia's systems. So I called the CIA…

I will not take the full hour. But I do rise to discuss a matter of vital importance, following the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi), on issues relating to national security. There are some in both parties who are concerned that…

a terrible tragedy occurred on Friday of last week. The District of Columbia fire chief resigned his position. I have known Tom Tippett for a number of years. I have come to respect him and admire him, as do all of those firefighters, men…

this past Saturday evening, we suffered a tragic loss in America when a Marine Corps V-22 Osprey crashed in a test mode and killed all 19 Marines on board the aircraft, a tragic loss of life. All America has joined with the Commandant of…

Mr. Chairman, tonight we have an opportunity to do something that this body has never done before. That is to provide some immediate dollar assistance to those brave men and women across America who, day in and day out, have responded to…

this is an emergency supplemental. Let me cite some emergencies for our colleagues: Hurricane Floyd, Hurricane Andrew, Hurricane Hugo, the wildlands fires in California and in the west States of Oregon and Washington, the Midwestern…

I rise this evening in an unanticipated move to rally the support of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle and the constituents of our colleagues on both side of the aisle who are involved in the Nation's fire and emergency services…

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.

As the gentleman knows from hearings that we have held in our Subcommittee on Military Research and Development, we are going through a major revolution in America that the people really do not understand. In fact, we only have had one…

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…

we are in the middle of a revolution right now in America, only the second such revolution in the history of our country. The first was when America transitioned from an agrarian society to an industrial society. Many of our colleagues and…

tonight, as I sit in the Chamber with our colleagues, it will be my 14th opportunity and honor to sit in this room as the President of the United States delivers the State of the Union address for this Nation for the year 2000, the…

as I have done frequently in the past, I want to just talk this evening about a situation that occurred in a hearing this week relative to our relations with Russia. The last time I addressed this body it was to focus on a new direction in…

I rise tonight to discuss security issues facing this country and to focus the bulk of my discussion on the issue that is going to be, I think, a major issue for the rest of this year and well into the Presidential elections next year, and…

I rise to say that I have the highest regard for my good friend from Michigan, and he knows that. We are good friends; but I have to oppose him on this issue, Mr. Speaker. This bill is a good bill. In fact, it is an excellent bill. I…

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…