[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11789]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  FUNDING FOR INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS

  (Ms. FALLIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. FALLIN. Mr. Speaker, one of the most effective tools we have 
against fighting our enemies like al Qaeda is intelligence, information 
that allows us to disrupt their terror cells and prevent attacks before 
they happen. And yet, the Democrats see fit to cut the funding of these 
operations.
  Worst of all, they are shifting resources away from vital, war-
related intelligence operations towards their politically correct 
crusade on global warming.
  Does the Democrat leadership really think that carbon emissions 
represent a greater threat to the United States than the 9/11 radical 
jihadists?
  Yesterday, law enforcement foiled a plot by terrorists to attack and 
kill U.S. soldiers in New Jersey. Protecting our Nation should be our 
number one priority. Does the leadership really think that our 
surveillance satellites should be aimed at polar ice caps and not 
terror cells and that spies should be investigating global warming?
  Congress must adequately fund our intelligence operations. If we 
don't, we may need to be more concerned about global warming in the 
United States caused by a global attack, caused by a nuclear attack in 
our own backyards.

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