Political Quotes

“I want to give my thanks to Chairman Skelton for doing a great job of putting together an excellent bill which passed unanimously out of the Armed Services Committee. He followed very strongly what I call the two tracks that we're on. The first track is to provide for the warfighters in the theaters that are currently in progress in Afghanistan and Iraq and around the world, where we're fighting the global war against terror. We do so very well in this bill in terms of putting in lots of extra money for MRAPs, for force protection, for defense against mortars, against roadside bombs, and all the other things that are important aspects and dimensions of force protection. Then we also provide for what I call over the horizon. That means that we've provided, with the very able chairmen of the subcommittees and the ranking members, for continued equipment buys in critical areas and put in extra money for submarines, which we will have low numbers in the next 5 to 10 years, but are a very important part of American leverage in foreign policy and a very important component of warfighting.”