Steve Womack: “I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Allen), my friend who serves on the Agriculture and…”

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

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.

General Saltzman has a very small entity... but a very important one. His mission is absolutely critical in the country.

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.