Honorable Jim Kolbe
United States Representative, Arizona, Republican
Representative Kolbe, of the Fifth District of Arizona, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1984. He served in the Arizona Senate from 1976 to 1982. He is a member of the Appropriations Committee, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and Export Financing. The following is from the July 26, 2002, House floor debate on H.R. 5005, the Homeland Security Act of 2002.I rise in strong support of the Homeland Security Act. The Select Committee on Homeland Security and the other committees, recognizing the gravity of this matter, have moved swiftly to bring this legislation…
