Norman D. Dicks: “The best and safest thing to do is to defeat the Flake amendment. That's kind of a standard. That's the surest way of…”

I look forward to working with the gentleman on this issue, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Tom Foley was my friend, mentor, and colleague in the House of Representatives.

I was a very strong proponent of the C-17 even when Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach was building this airplane. I had a chance to go there when they were doing the wooden mock-ups and when they brought in the load masters, who made it such…

I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Price), who's the ranking member on the Homeland Security Subcommittee.