Honorable Rush Holt
United States Representative, New Jersey, Democrat
Representative Holt was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in November 1998. In the 109th Congress, he served on the Education and the Workforce Committee and the Intelligence Committee, where he was the ranking minority member on the Subcommittee on Intelligence Policy. The following is excerpted from the December 9, 2006, House floor debate on passage of the Henry J. Hyde United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act conference report. Ifwe really believe that nuclear proliferation and loose nukes are the greatestthreat to world peace and security, as I do, as many of us do, then we shouldbe…