Honorable Bob Barr
United States Representative, Georgia, Republican
Representative Barr, of the Seventh District of Georgia, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994. He was a Central Intelligence Agency Analyst from 1971 to 1978, U.S. Attorney from the North Georgia District from 1986 to 1990, and Director of the Southeast Legal Foundation from 1990 to 1992. He serves on the Financial Services Committee, the Government Reform Committee, and the Judiciary Committee, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law. The following is from the July 26, 2002, House floor debate on H.R. 5005, the Homeland Security Act of 2002.When American leaders convened…
