Jim Saxton: “I know how deeply and earnestly he feels about the issues that he was talking about relative to our national defense. We…”

“I know how deeply and earnestly he feels about the issues that he was talking about relative to our national defense. We value the leadership of the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Jones) on these issues. We were delighted he was able to be here with us tonight. First, let me say how much I enjoy serving on the gentleman's subcommittee, the Procurement Subcommittee. There are darned few things that we have to be thankful for, that is, those of us who disagree with the Clinton administration on our level of military commitment in these days, but one of the things that we do have to be thankful for is that the gentleman is where he is. I watched, actually I helped, I was there by his side last year on the Procurement Subcommittee as we tried to sort out and make those difficult decisions about how to best allocate the very limited resources, relatively limited resources that we have to make use of relative to our national security.”