Well, Mayor Weiers, you find yourself in the minority here. Maybe you can tell us how that happened, going from the majority to the minority on this issue.
That cannot be good for our interests over time.
You cannot ask people to go and fight and die unless you promise them that we will defeat their enemy and defeat them right away.
In my view, I conclude that it is an excuse that people use, frankly, to not have us involved.
I share that view, and the thing that is frustrating to me sometimes is all of this stuff that people accept--they have made a deal with ISI...
We are asking them to fight. We are asking them to risk their lives, and yet we will not give them the protection from the air attacks.
Actually what you have done is refuse to answer questions before this Committee. I am not sure why you came.
S. 2670, the Keep the Promises Act, is a narrowly tailored bill that preserves the agreement that was made with voters in 2002.
Well, they are certainly not impoverished, Mr. Washburn.
One of the compact's terms was that this compact, the final agreement for the parties on these issues, and introducing new terms after every...
So you won't tell us how impoverished you are. I got it.