Political Quotes

“this is a very serious process, and this process did not start here. It started in the battlefield in Afghanistan and in the fleet and in the expeditionary marine units that are engaged in war in a remote part of the world right now on behalf of the United States. What happens is the battlefield commanders send to their headquarters the requirements for those things that they need. They let them know if they need ammunition. They let them know if they need battlefield wound dressings. They let them know if they need spare parts. They send those things up through their chain of command and it comes up through the services and it comes up through the Pentagon and it is worked over by the folks who head the services, and they send it to the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations, and they review it, and then we produce for the people who wear the uniform of the United States the equipment that they need to win the war. Now, that is what they have done, and that is what this bill gives them. It gives them bombs and ordnance. It gives them these JDAM munitions which are very accurate. It gives them the Predator attack vehicles which have proved so successful on the battlefields. It gives the infantry ammunition, and they are low on ammunition right now. It gives them M-60 helicopters. It gives them what they need right down to those battlefield wound dressings. That is what we give them.…”