Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I want to associate myself with the remarks made by my friend, the gentleman from Arkansas (Mr. Womack) who talked about the importance of what we need to do to get back into a position where we can get control over spending. There are people that are running around right now trying to pit our Nation's defense against balancing the Federal budget Mr. Speaker, in fact, it is a false choice because if you zeroed out the entire Department of Defense's budget, which I hope no one would embrace, if you zeroed it out, you would still have a deficit. So, clearly, it is not the Department of Defense that is the problem. We need a strong national defense. President Trump has been rebuilding our military. We need to keep rebuilding our military. Mr. Speaker, we had more men and women die in training exercises than dying in combat over the last 3 years, by a 5-to-1 margin. It was less safe to train to be in the military in the United States of America than it was to go into combat, because they didn't have the tools they needed. Planes were falling out of the sky because they didn't have spare parts. We have finally started to address that. The last thing we want to do is go backward on that success. And I don't think anybody in this building, voting ``yes'' or ``no,'' understands or would agree with the idea that if a ``no'' vote were to be successful, we would have a $71 billion cut to our Nation's defense, which is one of our prime constitutional responsibilities.…”