Steve Womack: “The problem is not tomorrow. The problem is 2035.”

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

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 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…