As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money.

The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs for nuclear warheads in late 1995, the Clinton Administration failed to take steps immediately to improve security.

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.

The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming.

There is a difference between strategic or technical default and default where you really don't have the economy to support the spending. We are not at that point yet. We could be. We could be, like some European nations.