Richard B. Nugent: “I worry that, you know, we want to balance a budget on the backs of these men and women that have given everything.”

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…

You know, without maritime lift capacity, my sons that are all in the Army are going to be kind of hard-pressed just because you can't put a Paladin or an Abrams--you can't carry very many on an aircraft.

Eliminating the ability to rapidly mobilize, train, and deploy... increases risk at an unacceptable rate.

I absolutely appreciate the chairman doing that and would love to work with him.