Steve Womack: “Mandatory spending accounts for 70 percent of the federal budget.”

I think a lot of us up here would agree that the federal bureaucracy has become bloated, but I think we need to be a little bit more precise in downsizing a department with a mission as critical.

I can tell all of you the river valley in Arkansas is very excited to hear the sound of freedom beginning this fall, I guess, when the Polish show up.

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.

This is not an attempt to undo the Guard. It is a very small number of people.