Steve Womack: “My colleagues across the aisle have called this hearing today to talk about the budgetary and economic impacts of…”

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.

This is a very unusual situation we have. We created this Space Force, and we took people out of the Air Force and other services.

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