Howard P. McKeon: “But until that happens, we shouldn't take away this critical lifeline.”

If it only leads to a justification of programs in the budget, then both the Department and Congress have lost a major opportunity.

The debt crisis we face was decades in the making and a result of choosing the easy path when we should have explored the bravery of restraint.

This is a threat daily and directly impacting the U.S. homeland, and we need to treat it as a national security imperative.

It certainly does nothing to deal with threats like North Korea or Iran.