Willie Hefner: “I yield to nobody on my support for the military. On military construction, we have had hundreds of calls for add-ons to…”

“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 Republicans and Democrats. We rewrite history around here pretty regularly. I remember when Ronald Reagan was President, a group of us went up to Camp David and we were talking about budgets. I said, Mr. President, what is going to happen to us if the economy does not operate like you think and we get down to the point where we have these tremendous deficits? God bless his heart, he said, we will just have to face that when we get to it. The gentleman from Texas (Mr. Charlie Stenholm) was there. Our distinguished chairman of the Committee on the Budget, my good friend, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. John Kasich) and the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Newt Gingrich), the Speaker, this morning, talked about, and the gentleman with the belt last night, talking about we can only cut one penny, one penny.”