Steve Stockman

It is my pleasure to rise today in support of H.R. 185 in this 113th United States Congress, being brought before us by the gentleman from Texas, Mr. Hall, which will honor an esteemed gentleman from Sherman, Texas, the Honorable Paul…

I'd like to recognize the fact that we're talking here today about things that impact our Nation, and I want to talk about our Speaker who, as you know, or many of you know, I voted against and didn't want to be the Speaker. Today, our…

Today, Mr. Speaker, a young man was sentenced because he listened to the propaganda of an organization that I consider a hate group. This group says: If you don't agree with us, if you don't follow the line, you deserve to be on our list…

I am appalled. Our friend said Republicans are in the bedroom, but we have a President who is collecting our phone records, collecting our medical records, and now wants to collect our gun records. Where in the world and when do we say…

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.

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

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

I would like to point out that the military works for Congress, not the other way around. So if we direct the military to do something, they do it. If they object, they're not going to object and say, We're not going to do it. We're the…

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…

This is an important amendment in that the Chinese have demonstrated time and time again that they're willing to take our tactics and our technology. Coming up in 2014, President Obama has invited the Chinese to participate in a RIMPAC…

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

It broke my heart.

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?

It is shocking our Government would waste money.

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.

When I first started out in politics, a dear friend of mine, Howard Phillips, was a conservative leader and a great father and patriot. On April 20, Howard Phillips passed away. He grew up in Boston, where he became an avid baseball fan…

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.

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

These objectives must be met with additional and sufficient funds rather than reducing or cancelling funding for existing NASA programs.

We now have the ability--and therefore the responsibility--to take effective actions for identifying and avoiding a potentially catastrophic collision.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul would only result in half-hearted efforts which would fail to address the threat from asteroids.

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

Tracking and mitigating such objects must become a national priority.

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