Steve Womack: “I agree with my colleagues that talk about the need to do a budget because I do think, as Speaker Pelosi indicated, that…”

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.

Let me correct the record on one thing my friend said. He referred to the continuing resolution that expires not February 17, but this month, November 17. I just didn't want him to give the American people the appearance that we had a lot…

We just have to have some ability to be able to constrain Congress from moving past the moment to some future milestone and give it the force of law today

I personally think it is the secret sauce in readiness that be gets our warfighters prepared and ready to fight and win.