Walter B. Jones: “Extremism will ruin this Nation. This is a prime example.”

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.

I believe sincerely that that is the biggest threat to our national security, is the growing debt.

The American people--over 50 percent of the American people do not want our personnel in Syria or in Iraq.

I believe we have been very clear, sir, that the President's request, the PB16 [President's budget 2016] request, we believe, is the absolute minimum needed to provide the national security necessary for the United States.