Richard B. Nugent: “I will continue to reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from…”

People forget that there is actually flesh and blood, parents and children, of those young men and women that are serving this country. They forget there are real people in those uniforms. And so that is why this is so important.

Last year, the 113th Congress appropriated $220 million dollars for the sole purpose of accelerating the development of a domestic rocket propulsion system.

I think I have made my frustrations readily clear in regards to how we got to the current NDAA. It is troubling to see how the Senate's failure to act is going to end up costing our troops. To me, it is just not right to the men and women…

One of the recommendations I believe from that panel was also to invest more in medical countermeasures. Are we doing that? Are we investing more or are we staying status quo?