Steve Womack: “If you can't do something like that, then what, pray tell, can you do to fix the bigger problem?”

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 thank my friend, Chairman Calvert, for giving me an opportunity to speak on this very vital piece of legislation. It is our solemn duty, Mr. Speaker, to protect our allies and defeat our common enemies. I think we have agreement on both…

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.

I thank my friend from Tennessee for yielding. Mr. Chair, I rise in support of this amendment. To be clear, I have a record throughout this entire appropriations process that will demonstrate that I am not a supporter writ large of the…