Speech #1030132956

I want to address three areas tonight that are very important not only to the Republican Members of the House of Representatives but. we know. to the other side of the aisle. to the Democrat Representatives and also the American people. I want to talk a little bit about national security. the first and most primary responsibility of the Federal Government to its people. I want to talk a little bit about immigration. about that subject that is on everyones mind and is very much a concern of the taxpayers. and I want to talk a little bit about health care. Let me start off. Madam Speaker. addressing the national defense question because the explosions in the Balkans that are now so well illustrated on national television every night. the ongoing problems in the Middle East. the continuing development of nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula by the Northern Koreans. and other trouble spots around the world. continue to remind the American people that it is not a safe world yet and that this most important obligation to the American people that this House maintains is to defend our people and to protect them. and that there is some question as to whether or not we are cutting our defenses too fast and too deeply.