one of our principal responsibilities here as Members of Congress and especially in this committee is to conduct rigorous oversight of defense programs and policies.
On the portion of the OCO request that provides provision for Syria, a few things stood out to me.
That NSN number, there is a real backlog there for businesses trying to get those numbers.
So I understand the tension between making sure our embassies are accessible to the host-nation citizens who want to do ...
I wasn't here then. I'm here now, and my focus is moving forward.
these are the same folks who voted to cut funding to the State Department.
I have small businesses in my district that are still struggling.
we had our own Senator, a great Senator, Daniel Inouye had his Medal of Honor downgraded to a Silver Star simply because...
we are just basically dragging our--we are just waiting for them to die, which is unconscionable, because they were not ...
some of those decisions may have been not necessarily based on the actual facts of how these men served.
I am absolutely astounded, gentlemen. These men are dying. These men did not wait when the United States asked for help....