Devin Nunes: “First, I would like to thank the chairman and ranking member for their support of this amendment. And I will be very…”

“First, I would like to thank the chairman and ranking member for their support of this amendment. And I will be very quick here. This base is a very important location for us in the middle of the Atlantic. Over the last decade, we have invested about $150 million into the infrastructure there. Now the Air Force is talking about actually tearing down facilities there. It is starting to spend money to tear it down. This doesn't make a lot of sense to me, nor does it to the Congress, because last Congress, both in the NDAA and in the Defense Appropriations bills, the Congress said very specifically that this was a facility that needed to be used. The military needed to figure out a use for it. They were not to draw down the forces there. Instead, the Air Force continues to ignore the Congress, so much so that now they want to use funds to tear down facilities. This is a complete rejection of, I think, Congress' prerogative and Congress' intent of the laws from last year. So now we have to go into the Military Construction Appropriations bill to make sure that we hold people accountable. I would say that this is, I think, just a placeholder.…”