Many of our colleagues felt that this would endanger our relationship with Russia. I am at one and the same time Russia's strongest critic on proliferation, on transparency, on strategic relationships. But I also consider myself their best…

Absolutely. To get to the first point of the gentleman, the blame game has got to end. This should not be a time, with American troops in harm's way, that we pick partisan fights back and forth over who can blame the other side the most…

In fact, I would ask, Madam Speaker, to insert in the Congressional Record this Dear Colleague memo that I sent to every one of the 435 House Members today which outlines in detail exactly what we have done up until now. The text of the…

Absolutely, totally correct. Nothing else can be inferred from what we are doing. No one should raise the issue of armchair secretaries of State because that is not what we are about. If we reach a conclusion in our discussions over the…

Absolutely. In fact, my good friend and colleague knows my reputation. I am one of Russia's strongest critics. In fact, it was not too long ago I was on this floor offering a bill strongly opposed by the administration that would in fact…

in fact, I would tell my colleague not only is he true and correct, but when I led a delegation in December to Moscow for our part of the exchange, we were the first western Democratic parliament to be taken into the Duma chambers while…

I do want to continue a discussion that I started last evening, a discussion regarding the situation in Kosovo and the involvement of our troops in the air campaign, as well as the potential involvement of our troops in a ground campaign…

I rise tonight in what I hope will be a nightly discussion in this body on what I think is one of the most dangerous involvements of our military in recent time; that is the ongoing situation in Kosovo. It is my hope that Members on both…

When I introduced this bill last August, I reached out to the Democrat side. The bill had 24 Democrats and 24 Republicans when I dropped the bill in, because I did not want it to be a partisan battle. There were some in my party who…

I reject as a Member of this Congress trivializing this issue with an umbrella, because 28 young Americans 8 years ago came home in body bags because we had no system to defend against. And to say that somehow an umbrella with nothing…

let me just respond to my friend, the gentleman from California (Mr. Farr). What he does not tell our colleagues is that we have spent $19 billion in contingency funds out of our defense budget for deployments that were never budgeted for…

just on the budget issue, we really ought to deal with it. My colleague made a good point here. Let me also add, and my colleague is well aware that over the past 4 years, it was this Congress, this Republican Congress, who gave the…

first of all I want to applaud the level of debate today on this issue and thank Members from both sides for their diligence in focusing on this issue. I want to applaud the integrity of the opponents of this issue. And I want to point out…

I rise today in this special order to discuss America's patriots. The patriots of America have been extremely important in the struggle for this great Nation over the past 220 years, to allow us to enjoy the freedoms and the independence…

I am ashamed to tell you, Mr. Speaker, today, as a senior member of the Committee on Armed Services, as the chairman of one of our key subcommittees, that we have some of our fighter wings where up to one-third of our airplanes are not…

I rise in full and strong support of this measure. But I want to remind our colleagues that while we are here to state our support for the troops in words, we need much more than words in the current environment in this city. We are going…

I want to focus on a lesser publicized issue that I think presents for us a scandal that is going to last well into the next century. That scandal involves the underfunding of our national military and our national security apparatus…

I rise to pay my personal respects to my leader and my mentor for the past 14 years. I say 14 years, even though I am only in my 6th term, because if it were not for the gentleman that we are honoring tonight, I probably would not be here…

Before 1996, China had no high-speed supercomputers. None. The only two countries that manufacture high-speed supercomputers are the U.S. and Japan. Japan's export policy has been very rigid and very tight. Up until 1996, so was ours. In…

I predict that this 10-year period in time, the 1990s, will go down in history as the worst period of time in terms of undermining our national security. In the next century, people are going to realize that the economic savings that were…

As the gentleman knows, as a Republican and a colleague, I supported the same position he did on NAFTA, which is opposition to NAFTA, because I felt that this administration would not impose the requirements on Mexico in terms of improving…

What Members need to understand, Mr. Speaker, is that we are facing what my good friend, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Sisisky) referred to as a major train wreck, because some very divergent things are happening. We are into our 15th…

Unlike most of my Republican friends, I get strong support from organized labor, and I am proud of that. I come from a working class family and understand the needs of working class people. I had a group of steelworkers in today asking me…

The gentleman raises a very interesting point. In fact, two hours ago I met with the senior leaders of the Israeli company building the Arrow program in my office as well as Israeli officials. They have had the success the gentleman refers…

I rise as one of the members of the minority in this body, and that is that I am a classroom teacher. I spent 7 years in the public schools in Pennsylvania, and in fact, besides being a teacher and a head teacher in an impoverished…