Roscoe Bartlett: “One cannot make arguments that sending troops to Rwanda and Somalia advanced our vital national interests to the point…”

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

But I think the sooner we get out of those wars, the better off we are.

Just in closing, Mr. Chairman, the market will not take care of peak oil. Remember I said it here.

I question the proposal to scrap aircraft currently providing intelligence support to our warfighters, including those purchased as recently as last year.