Robert Dornan: “I am extended for 2 years on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. It is my eighth year. And there will not be…”

“I am extended for 2 years on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. It is my eighth year. And there will not be a single Republican member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence who will argue with the figures provided for our defense and national security structure in this bill or, for that matter, in the authorization bill, which is a bit higher. I do not believe any Democrat who serves on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, who has a reputation of working consistently and hard on defense, will either find any question that the funding levels here are exaggerated. We may be the sole standing surviving superpower, but when there is as much nuclear weaponry around the world as still exists, that do not have the checks and balances that we have in our governmental system, then we do still live in a severely dangerous world. And I would ask everybody to reject all the amendments coming up that cut our defense budget.”