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On the recordJune 13, 2019
I just want to comment that every time I hear things about the President--you have to keep in mind that we have the best economy we have had. Unemployment is at 4 percent. We are better than we have ever been. We went through 8 years with the Obama administration taking down our military to the point where we allowed Russia and China to get ahead of us in many areas, such as hypersonics, and now we are going into this thing with a Defense authorization bill. But it is this President who is changing--trying to overcome the problems. I don't criticize President Obama because he was really feeling where his priorities should be, and they have not been to defend America. He set up this system that says for every dollar that you put into the military, you have to put a dollar into nonmilitary, and that is just not what we are supposed to be doing in this country. So we are going to get to the point at which the American people are going to be very proud that we are going to have systems, we are going to have weaponry, we are going to be back to where we used to be and we have been since World War II--having the best equipment, treating our people the best, having the best troops. We already have the best troops in the field. We need to do for them what they are doing for us. That is what this bill is all about. Again, this President has been very supportive in rebuilding the military. Look at the court system. Right now we have great new jurists.…
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Jim Inhofe
Republican · Oklahoma

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