Norman D. Dicks: “I yield myself such time as I may utilize. (Mr. DICKS asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)”

Tom believed in and practiced civility, and bipartisanship.

I was a very strong proponent of the C-17 even when Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach was building this airplane. I had a chance to go there when they were doing the wooden mock-ups and when they brought in the load masters, who made it such…

I'm very interested in this, and I want to talk to my good friend about this. I would like to work with you on it.

You don't need thousands of these weapons. A couple hundred, frankly, could take out Iran and almost any country you can imagine. So, again, we can't afford to do everything. We are in an era where we're dealing with terrorists, and we…