Steve Womack: “It should be deeply unsettling to all of us here in this room that Fiscal Year 2020 will be the first year since fiscal…”

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.

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