Don Bacon: “Increasing benefits or expanding eligibility in one program here does nothing to solve the more egregious cliff effects…”

We should have done this a year ago. We could have done this in a bipartisan way a year ago, but we have not.

I do support it. We cannot produce enough Patriots right now to handle what we're doing on Iran to provide.

I am grateful to our friends at Space for Humanity for bringing this idea to us, and to Sen. Kelly and our co-leads for working together to recognize these extraordinary astronauts.

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.