Steve Womack: “It is not unprecedented that Federal bureaucracy sometimes allow personal bias to enter into their decisions.”

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.

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

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.