On the recordJuly 14, 2015
I thank my friend from North Carolina. This is a great opportunity today for all of us ladies to be down here on the floor together, having a little conversation about what we recognize and can see matters to the majority of Americans, and that is the safety of this country and our national defense, our ability to defend against enemies. To my friend from North Carolina, there are a lot of those out there right now. As we watch the lack of leadership in this administration, we have seen these enemies raise their heads, and it is by no mistake because they will seek to fill a void, and that is exactly what is happening around the world. All of our colleagues that have talked earlier in this hour about the bad, bad deal with Iran, this comes at a time not only where we are seeing the atrocities of ISIS and other groups around the world, but also at a time when we have cut our military not through the muscle, but into the bone. All of us here, we all have military interests in some respect throughout our districts. I know you have a large military presence in your district and others here joining us today, our colleagues; so everyone here has not felt the pain of what these cuts look like. To my colleagues, if we don't do something about this sequester here, when it goes into full implementation--we are already cutting combat aviation brigades. We will have to cut even more.…
