I hope as we make the decision, we will be unified in our support and the result will be a facility that all of us can be proud of.

Do you anticipate working with them?

It is about $10,000 a day. Is it not?

I think we all agree that the overriding requirement here is to get our people trained to make them as safe as we possibly can.

You know, from a perspective of trying to evaluate these moving numbers...

the attempted construction of a Foreign Affairs Security Training Center (FASTC) at Fort Pickett in Blackstone, Virginia, to conduct Diplomatic Security (DS) training is the perfect example of bureaucracy run amok.

I remain unconvinced that the construction of a FASTC located at Ft. Pickett is the best use of taxpayer funds.

I support Connie Patrick. She shoots straight, and we are so proud of her in Georgia.

But those cost savings should show up in whatever cost-benefit analysis finally is done.

How do that in L.A.?

I said it looks like a horse built by a committee, which is a camel.

This is not how the people's business should be done.

Is that right?

I think Deputy Secretary Heather Higginbottom in March, I think, of last year in an email expressed annoyance with their contact with the Appropriations Committee.

The $272 million and the $413 million are hard skills.

Madam President, I rise today to speak in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act. I strongly urge my colleagues in this body to vote for the NDAA and send it to the President's desk for signature. Let's move to fund our military…

It is incumbent on us all, however, to use limited taxpayer resources in the most efficient and effective manner possible.

Mr. Speaker, I come to the floor today to commend my colleagues in the House and Senate for passing the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 and to call on the President to sign this vital bill into law. It is the…