Walter B. Jones: “This bill is about jobs, it's about taxpayers' right to access the recreational areas they own, and it's about restoring…”

I never will forget Donald Rumsfeld, the former Secretary of Defense, sitting where you are telling this committee that he will account for every dollar of the taxpayer.

How can we build the trust of the American people after 16 years, over 2,300 Americans killed, over 20,000 wounded, and we spent $1 trillion?

I wrote to President Trump, had it delivered on July the 18th. I wanted him, if he was going raise the troop levels in Afghanistan, to please come to Congress, ask Congress to meet its constitutional responsibility and have a debate.

I want to talk about the graveyard of empires. I think that is what they say about Afghanistan and the history of Afghanistan.