Steve Womack: “We have spent the last several years looking at how we were going to report.”

I can tell all of you the river valley in Arkansas is very excited to hear the sound of freedom beginning this fall, I guess, when the Polish show up.

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

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…

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