Steve Womack: “People are still wanting to come to this country. They still see us as the greatest nation in the world, the freest.”

I personally think it is the secret sauce in readiness that be gets our warfighters prepared and ready to fight and win.

There are only about 578 people that will be affected by this. You know, the Guard is over 100,000.

before I close, let me say, as most of my colleagues know and as Mr. Clyburn pointed out, my presence here today in the face of a terrible, personal hardship--the loss of my wife of over 41 years--I hope is indicative of the importance of…

I am going to take that 30 seconds and brag on this guy right here, Tom Cole. He has reengineered, somewhat reinvented a lost appropriations process, and I am eternally grateful. I know I speak for the American people in thanking Mr. Cole…