Don Bacon

We can put a little common sense and humanity into the equation.

Congress should conduct oversight, calling for testimony from top Navy officials.

We have a moral obligation to those we have served with in Afghanistan, who serve by our side, helping us out. We had a promise, and a promises made should be promises kept. Absolutely.

We should have oversight.

Keep the pressure on and say less. That would be my advice to the president.

I think it was important for him to level with the American people. This is going to be a tough fight.

I think he needed to set appropriate and honest expectations here.

We should have oversight. We should bring in secretary of the Navy and/or the commander, the – the service chief of the Navy, and have them explain to us the truth on that.

I think it's better just to acknowledge, hey, this is a problem, and we got – we got to work towards getting wages climbing faster than inflation.

I think we still have the advantage, but we have to be patient.

This is going to be a tough fight, and we do not- we cannot allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.

I think he was setting maybe false expectations in the previous months... This is going to be a longer term fight.

I think most Americans are feeling the pain at the grocery store and the gas.

I think he was being honest. And I think he was setting maybe false expectations...

I think Republicans could reclaim the middle if we push back more on tariffs.

I think it's better to acknowledge, hey, this is hard on the families, it's hard on the service members.

We still have the advantage, but we have to be patient.

I think it would have been better to acknowledge, hey, long deployments are hard.

He doesn't communicate it well. As you mentioned, he makes light of the affordability question. And we do have an affordability problem.

Putin’s illegal war is failing, but he will not choose peace until the cost becomes too high for Russia and those helping fund his brutality.

The go-it-alone approach fails us in the end

The founders made it very hard to … pass things unless there’s consensus. Madison would be proud of the work he did.

We have a dysfunctional House.

America’s pioneering spirit has long defined our leadership in space exploration.