Political Quotes

“If you care about our warfighters who are in theater tonight, this is the worst possible cut that we could give the Department of Defense. This says that overseas operations, where they are actually in places like Afghanistan or Syria or Iraq, we are going to take the dollars they are using to operate and stay safe and get the job done, and we are whacking one-third off of that budget. We are taking a meat-cleaver approach, not a scalpel. This is a meat-cleaver approach. Besides the things that the chairman mentioned that would be cut working with allies, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance would be cut, ISR. {time} 1830 When our commanders have forces going out on a patrol, those patrols want overhead observation before them, over them, behind them. That is the kind of thing directly cut by this amendment. When the troops come back, and the equipment has to be refurbished and reset, that is cut by this amendment. Mr. Chair, this is a very poorly thought out amendment, and I would urge everyone to vote ``no.''”