Robert Dornan: “While 1,300,000,000 listeners and watchers of C-SPAN are watching us, I might use this opportunity to tell them…”

“While 1,300,000,000 listeners and watchers of C-SPAN are watching us, I might use this opportunity to tell them something. The newly named National Security Committee--you and I preferred the old title, maybe both, Armed Services and National Security--has come down to 5 subcommittees. Our great chairman, Navy Capt. Floyd Spence, of South Carolina, is no longer able to take a subcommittee. He will be a shepherd, shepherding his five Napoleonic marshals, his subcommittee chairmen. You have the most important preferred subcommittee, you are the chairman of the Subcommittee on Procurement. Herb Bateman, of Virginia, has the great area where the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan and U.S.S. Harry Truman will be built. He has the Readiness Subcommittee. He would have been chairman of Merchant Marine and Fisheries Subcommittee if we had not done away with it, which I agreed with. Then Curt Weldon, of the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, has R&D, which I am on, and you have been the ranking member in the past. I am chairman of the Personnel Subcommittee. Joel Hefley, of Cheyenne Mountain, NORAD, that great part of the Colorado Air Force Academy, is the fifth marshal for installations. The five of us, together with our two Committees on Intelligence that have national security responsibility, and I got first pick there, Chairman Dornan of Technical and Tactical Intelligence, Jerry Lewis, our colleague, the chairman of the other, including human intelligence, and the CIA.”