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

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.

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?

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

I think we can do that, but I think we need to avoid as some people are trying--seeing Kurds as the solution to this problem.