Steve Womack: “I support building that wall.”

I would be remiss if I didn't acknowledge the last speaker, my friend, Earl Blumenauer. It was a source of pride for me to be here on the floor this morning and see the gentleman's last speech on the floor of the House of Representatives…

There are only about 578 people that will be affected by this. You know, the Guard is over 100,000.

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.

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.