Blaine Luetkemeyer: “I have the right to close, so I reserve the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Missouri has the…”

That is not a request by a letter. That is in the law that Congress passed. She is supposed to show up.

In response to the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, my fellow Missourian, President Harry Truman, signed a law intended to ensure that our nation would have sufficient industrial resources to meet our national security needs.

This is unbelievable. I can't get a straight answer. It took me 3 minutes to get an answer on that question.

I hate this rule. I fought it from the very beginning and once it got implemented we were trying to figure out how to make it minimally impactful on our folks.