Blaine Luetkemeyer: “I am prepared to close whenever the gentlewoman from Wisconsin is ready.”

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.

The continuation of that is going to be very, very important.

Anything less is unacceptable.