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

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…

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

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.