Don Bacon

There's just got to be a bicameral, bipartisan solution.

Speaker Johnson is an honest man. He truly walks his faith.

It's in our national security interest that Ukraine remain independent.

All Americans have to live by the law. And we're all accountable for our behavior.

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When the staff tells you that they can't identify a particular crime, there is a problem.

It establishes research centers at our American land-grant institutions across the nation with a purpose of researching physical and biological cyber threats to American agriculture.

I have been working on a bill for a couple of years called the American Agriculture Security Act of 2024.

We are not short of leaders, and so we have got to make sure that our leadership development and caring and compassion is strong.

We have to restore that 5 percent.

So the infrastructure, the child care access, access to medical benefits, the housing that is there, that is where they live, that is also where they fight.

When I go back home, I hear from parents, hey, we don't really think our kid should join right now because the focus is not on warfighting.

We are going to try to work hard. We may not be able to do it in one fell swoop, but we are going to try to chip away at this and get it done.

I think it is ludicrous that we determine what someone's housing allowance is and then we subtract 5 percent.

We've got to find a way to do that, and I'm going to be pushing this until we get resolution within DOD.

I think we need to have an emergency 24/7 backup capability that can't be taken out by surprise.

They've tried to present to me to how they feel it's survivable, I have not been convinced.

We're not here to accommodate eight people who just kicked us in the shins. They don't support our party in a sense. It's all about media clicks.

I have heard more from our military members and spouses... it has been more about the housing.

I think you have highlighted something that this committee knows we have got to focus on.

We have a recruiting and retention problem in our military right now. The quality of life isn't the only factors.

Not good. And I hope our service chiefs are taking this personally. They need to.

None of our members should be living in a room that is substandard.

There is an urgent need for DOD to implement oversight of our housing.

this isn't just a money problem, which it is and we need to know definitively what is it going to cost to get this right; but it is also policy, accountability.