Neil Abercrombie: “I do not dispute any of that. As I said, I have great respect for the gentleman. However, we battle every day in the…”

“I do not dispute any of that. As I said, I have great respect for the gentleman. However, we battle every day in the Committee on National Security for those millions of dollars. We are not able to maintain our own troops. We are not able to train our own troops. We are not able to equip our own troops. We are not able to maintain quality of life for our own troops. I am quite willing, in fact I will state that I am prepared today to work with the gentleman to try to accomplish this, but the gentleman is making a case for having joint consideration by the Committee on National Security and the Committee on International Relations so that our own forces can be adequately funded as well. I thank the gentleman for his kind indulgence.”