Mike Rogers: “We are losing around 60,000 Americans a year on prescription pill and heroin overdoses.”

It was not a great deal for us. We’ll never see any revenue from that thing, from what people around the bridge tell me, for a long time.

supports modernization and fundamentally reforms defense acquisition by cutting red tape, eliminating bureaucratic hurdles, and encouraging innovation.

I think that the Democratic Party walked away from working and middle-class Americans a decade ago, and in Michigan, people are starting to wake up to this notion that we can't continue to do this and expect our kids to stay.

I agree with Chairman Hill that our committees have a lot of ground to cover on authorities to strengthen the defense industrial base. Mr. Messmer's amendment is a good attempt to break through some of the bureaucracy that has hampered…