William M. ``Mac'' Thornberry

Amendment offered by Mr. Thornberry: Page 87, after line 21, insert the following new subsection: (h) NEXRAD Operational Availability and Reliability.--(1) The Secretary of Defense, in conjunction with the Administrator of the National…

this amendment is the exact same as an amendment that was accepted by all sides on this bill last year and its seeks to deal with a subset of the problem that we have already heard some discussion of, and that is inadequacies of coverage…

Mr. Chairman, this is a good bill. It enhances the security of the United States in ways that are going to get very little notice today. One of those ways is in people issues. The bill has a pay raise for our troops and it increases their…

Mr. Speaker, there is a legitimate question about whether the Federal Government ought to be in the helium business or not. I think we are beyond that. I think that this body has decided the Federal Government will get out of the helium…

those who do not learn from the mistakes of the past are condemned to repeat them. It has been 5 years since the gulf war, and yet the United States has not yet seemed to learn the dangers of being dependent on other for our energy needs…

when we look at all the different approaches that have been tried in agriculture since the 1930's, I think the marketing loan has got to be one of the most successful and it seems to me silly to throw out one of the things that has worked…

one of the reasons I believe that the control of this body changed in the last election is that the American people were fed up with those who talk one way and then come to Washington and vote another. There are those who still try to come…