Steve Womack: “This whole discussion about the budget process, this whole discussion about the debt commission, this whole discussion…”

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

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.

Before I close, let me say, as most of my colleagues know and as Mr. Clyburn pointed out, my presence here today in the face of a terrible, personal hardship--the loss of my wife of over 41 years--I hope is indicative of the importance of…

Testing the boundaries a little, I would expect that.