Steve Womack: “I appreciate your not trying to supplant our local control in this budget, but I want to be clear.”

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…

I do think it is a bit dangerous, though, for us to enter into an era where we are usurping the authority of our Governors.

General Saltzman has a very small entity... but a very important one. His mission is absolutely critical in the country.

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