C. W. Bill Young: “That may be true. But anyway, the answer to the gentleman is, I will be here. I do not have the authority to settle on a…”

I am going to be very brief here and suggest that the chairman has already specified some of the details of the defense part of this bill. Mr. Speaker, I want to say that it is long past time for the Congress to have completed action on…

first I want to make the point as strongly as I can that I want our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan and anyplace else in the world where they are in harm's way as soon as we can possibly do it without risking the security of our own…

For those of us who have visited our wounded soldiers and marines in the hospitals understand the importance of the type of injury you are discussing. Sometimes it is very obvious, very evident, and sometimes it is not obvious at all, but…

I yield myself 2 minutes to pay tribute to a longtime staffer of this defense subcommittee. This is the first time that I have had the opportunity to bring a defense appropriations bill to the floor without having Kevin Roper sitting here…