Douglas L. Peterson: “I think this is a good time for us to go back and regroup. As one of the earlier speakers has said, we agree on many…”

“I think this is a good time for us to go back and regroup. As one of the earlier speakers has said, we agree on many, many more things in this bill than we disagree on. We need to take advantage of this opportunity to go back and correct those disagreements and keep it capsulized into that area of disagreement and not open this thing all the way back up, and just focus on those thing and bring it back, bring it back so that all of us, this entire House, can feel good about voting for this conference report. That is what our mission is. We, again, have to focus on national security, and I say this, national security, not Republican security or Democratic security. It is time for us to make this a nonpartisan focus to make sure that we have equipped and have taken care of the quality-of-life factors for our military people in the U.S. armed services, and we do it as professionally, as adequately as we can possibly do that and do that on a bipartisan basis.”