Honorable Buck McKeon
U.S. Representative, California, Republican
Representative McKeon, of the Twenty-Fifth District of California, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992. He is the Ranking Republican member on the House Committee on Armed Services. The following is excerpted from his statement during the July 27, 2010, House floor debate on House Concurrent Resolution 301, directing the president to remove U.S. Armed Forces from Pakistan. In April 2009, the president released his strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and began to make the case to the American people that security and stability in the region are vital to the U.S. national security interests. I…
