Honorable Sonny Callahan
United States Representative, Alabama, Republican
Representative Callahan, of the First District of Alabama, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1984. He served in the Alabama House of Representatives from 1970 to 1978 and in the Alabama Senate from 1978 to 1982. He is a member of the House Appropriations Committee, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs. The following is from the June 29, 2000, House floor debate on the conference report on H.R. 4425, the Military Construction Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001.I rise in support of the conference agreement, which will, as far…