Roscoe Bartlett: “I rise in strong opposition to this bill, which will do nothing to fight crime and infringe on our second amendment…”

American taxpayers expect and deserve that Congress will make the difficult decisions to restore fiscal responsibility.

They have 1,300,000 people, 900 million of them in rural areas that through the miracle of communications know the advantages of industrialized economy, and they are saying, Hey, guys, what about us?

Given our alarming and unsustainable national debt, American taxpayers expect and deserve that Congress will make the difficult decisions to restore fiscal responsibility.

Another element in the discussion as to how much money we will spend in the future on defense is the recognition that our robust defense spending in the past and our willingness to protect has encouraged many of our allies to be quite…