Jim Saxton: “It is essential for our national security that our government do all that it can to support our armed forces.”

I thank Mr. Hoekstra for yielding. I would just like to build on something that Mr. Shadegg said. He said, in essence, that this subject is so important because it goes so much further than Iraq. And as a member of the Armed Services…

let me just begin by recognizing the true bipartisan nature of this bill. The bipartisan nature of this bill is due in no small part to our great chairman and my friend, Duncan Hunter, and the person that he often refers to as his partner…

this amendment, is perhaps well intended but goes much too far. This together with the $764 million that has already been cut from the bill provides us with a 20 percent cut in the missile defense program. Since 2001, contrary to what the…

I thank the gentleman for emphasizing the importance of tax policy relative to economic growth. One of the things that I would like to point out, and I know the gentleman knows this as well, the President today has been criticized by some…