Steve Womack: “I will get off my high horse on it and beg and plead with my colleagues to look for solutions to this problem.”

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.

I do think it is a bit dangerous, though, for us to enter into an era where we are usurping the authority of our Governors.

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