Willie Hefner: “Well, I have been here for quite awhile. I have never seen something of this magnitude, and we single out a State we are…”

Serving in this body has been something that I could never have dreamed about when I was a kid growing up in rural Alabama. I had never been to the capital of Alabama, Montgomery, let alone to think someday I would be able to come to the…

The Federal Government pays Federal employees' salaries, as well as provides the opportunity for a benefit package. They pay our salary, they pay benefit packages. That is all taxpayer dollars. We often get into that in debate, about…

I yield to nobody on my support for the military. On military construction, we have had hundreds of calls for add-ons to the military construction budget, but our allocation is so low we are not able to do it. There were calls from…

I do not understand why anybody would be confused, this being an exercise in lawyers here and all the technical things we have talked about. Let me just mention something here. I have been here longer than most of the people that have…