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

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.

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

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…

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.