Steve Womack: “We have not fixed the problem. We knew that baby boomers were going to start retiring at a very rapid rate in 2008.”

I would be remiss if I didn't acknowledge the last speaker, my friend, Earl Blumenauer. It was a source of pride for me to be here on the floor this morning and see the gentleman's last speech on the floor of the House of Representatives…

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.

General Saltzman has a very small entity... but a very important one. His mission is absolutely critical in the country.

Testing the boundaries a little, I would expect that.