Steve Stockman: “I don't believe that the United States Government is doing its job in making sure that we are prepared to deal with a…”

I think this is a very important area in which, as you know, could cause confrontation among many countries and the observations you made are important and I think that United States needs to be, I think, more aggressive in its posture.

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…

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 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.