Steve Womack: “I am also disappointed with the administration's new executive order on climate change and financial risk.”

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.

This is a very unusual situation we have. We created this Space Force, and we took people out of the Air Force and other services.

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…

Testing the boundaries a little, I would expect that.