Mike Rogers: “That is what I thought. Thank you, Chairman. So, Mr. Speaker, we have an easy choice here today: we can vote for a…”

“That is what I thought. Thank you, Chairman. So, Mr. Speaker, we have an easy choice here today: we can vote for a conference report that sends a bill to the President that provides him authorized funding at exactly the level he requested, or we can send the Nation below the ``ragged edge of manageable risk'' in its security. It is a bill that provides over a $320 million increase for our Israeli allies on top of the $155 million in the President's request for missile defense cooperation. I would ask Members, especially those who supported the President's Iran deal, to recall it is exactly this funding that the administration said was vital to Israel's security because of that deal and its termination of multilateral sanctions on ballistic missile proliferation. This is a bill that provides $184 million to fund an American rocket to end our reliance on Russian-made rocket engines. This is a bill that provides the President's request of $358 million for Cooperative Threat Reduction activities. What does that mean? That is how we fight Ebola. Mr. Speaker, my fellow Members, there are some tough votes that we have to take around here from time to time. This is not one of them. Vladimir Putin is bombing U.S.-backed anti-Assad forces in Syria. If you want to make Putin happy, vote against this bill.”