Steve Womack: “But thank you for your time. And like all my colleagues, we look forward to the day that you can visit northwest…”

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…

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

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

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