Tim Ryan: “I look forward to the old team being back down here. And I just want to continue as to what we are doing to try to fix…”

“I look forward to the old team being back down here. And I just want to continue as to what we are doing to try to fix this problem. As I said, with the benchmarks and making sure the Iraqi soldiers stand up, but a key component of this, as Ms. Wasserman Schultz has just mentioned is that we are saying that our troops can't leave here, the United States, and go to Iraq if they don't have the requisite level of equipment and training. And I don't think there is anybody in the country who would want to send one of our soldiers or lots of our soldiers off to war knowing, and the legal term is mense rea, you know, with intent, send kids that don't have the proper equipment and training. And the training part is something that Ms. Wasserman Schultz was just talking about. We have a readiness crisis in the Army. We are not capable now of handling another situation, military situation. Now, I think if you would ask the American people are we overstretched, they would all say yes. And if you talk to the military families, they say, yes, we are overstretched to the point where we have kids in battle who don't have everything that they need. And that is unacceptable. And so in our supplemental bill, we are saying that if you don't have the training and the equipment and the proper amount of rest, you are not going. Now, we put a waiver in there so that the President could waive it if there is a national security interest involved. But we don't like it. I know I don't like it.”