Richard B. Nugent: “I continue to reserve the balance of my time, Mr. Speaker. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I am happy to yield 1 minute to…”

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.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 6, line 20, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $4,000,000)''. Page 44, line 8, after the dollar amount…

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

At some point in time I think we have to start making decisions about where we fight because what we don't want to do is break the Marine Corps or the Army for that matter.