Steve Stockman

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. _. None of the funds made available by this Act…

Currently, right now we have a situation in which some of the countries which we deal with militarily are restricting the rare earth metals--and particularly China. They are asking that we build our sensitive equipment in their country in…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. _. None of the funds made available by this Act…

What we don't appreciate is a small collective of people to impose their will by force on others.

Twenty-five years ago in Tiananmen Square, they built a Statue of Liberty.

We have a gentleman, if you want to call him a gentleman, who is committing genocide in a country.

We want to see real action, and we want to call it--we want to call it what it is.

I am really frustrated that we have so much opportunity in this country, and again, and again, and again, it comes back to your administration.

I just want the boot off the neck of the Americans so we can see a future where we have independence from the Middle East.

The Chinese Government would have greater respect from the people if they respected the people.

I think that if this comes out down the road that we have problems then it is going to be looked back that we didn't do our jobs.

This is a fear that we are going to repeat the same mistakes we did before by making safety secondary to $5 million.

I am just really concerned that we are going to repeat our mistakes.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas will be postponed. Amendment No. 61 Offered by Mr. Turner The Acting CHAIR. It is now…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), add the following: Sec. _. None of the funds appropriated…

It is shocking our Government would waste money.

But isn't some of the technology you speak of sold by the United States to China's suppression of the Chinese people by Yahoo, Google and other companies?

I want to know from our standpoint what we can do to facilitate more freedom of expression in China.

It broke my heart.

I think this is very alarming what we are hearing today and had another nation or other nations done this, I think many people would view it almost as an act of war.

We are unprepared. And when something happens, if it is of a huge magnitude... we need to have more discussions like this.

I don't believe that the United States Government is doing its job in making sure that we are prepared to deal with a threat as expansive as this threat.

Clearly, it is important for us to increase the sophistication of our space sensors so we can detect them in advance.

I am a tireless budget-slasher; however, science, space; and yes, planetary defense are among the few government programs essential to our future.