If we had a 2-year process, I could spend a whole year doing oversight.
The founders didn't say you had to do it for 2 years, but they did say you can't do it for longer than 2 years.
I want to give my friend and my colleague Congressman Norman Dicks a lot of credit.
But this is truly a case in which the remedy is worse than the disease.
In order to get the proper oversight, you have got to have time.
By being able to budget for at least 2 years, you can plan ahead a little better.
The problem was that Chairman Dicks had a good defense bill, but couldn't get it on the floor.
We have worked in a kind of perfectly bipartisan way on this Commission because we all believe in it.
It offers them political legitimacy, in a sense, because often what we are doing is giving an additional dimension to reform efforts.
America's role in the world requires engagement.
There is nothing that is more fulfilling and rewarding in the work that we do as Members of the United States Congress than to see the kind ...