Steve Womack: “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”

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 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.

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

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