Steve Womack: “I look forward to working with you, Chairman Quigley, and the other members of this committee in a bipartisan fashion.”

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.

By the way, I have got to leave here in a minute and go meet with the city of Fort Smith board of directors.

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