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find terrorism to be something that they wanted to support. And I can understand outsiders not in the area getting emotionally committed. I can understand Irish-Americans being very supportive of terrorism. They wouldn't call it terrorism. And I was intrigued by a conversation that I had in the Congress this year when the foreign minister of the Republic of Ireland came and spoke to us, about 15 Congressmen -- most of them Irish but not all of them. I was there and a number of others. He said, “I don't understand why Irish-Americans support the IRA and terrorism. It's not in the interest of reunification.” He said, “There are a million Protestants in Northern Ireland who have become petrified and who will resist our joining together because of the terrorism against them. We are in no position to force reunification. We have an army [I think he said] of 17,000 men, and Northern Ireland has an army of 35,000 men plus their para-military forces. And the IRA, wherever it has contested democratically in an election, has never gotten more than 3% of the vote in the Republic of Ireland where they can run legally -- and probably even less in Northern Ireland. So why this support for these killers?” It was a very interesting conversation. I came out of that room and I went upstairs and Tony Moffett, who is a Congressman from Connecticut, a freshman (I hope he never comes back, and that doesn't come from the fact that he's Lebanese; it comes from this conversation which I'll tell you about)...

When I come up on the floor of the House, and Jerry Ambro