Jim Inhofe: “I appreciate very much getting that into the Record because that testimony came out in our committee meetings. The…”

“I appreciate very much getting that into the Record because that testimony came out in our committee meetings. The Senator from Kansas is right. Sometimes when you sit in a committee meeting in Washington, everything is filtered. You do not really get the truth you find in the field. This bill is going to put $449 million in real property and maintenance. The RPM accounts are accounts that are mandatory that we have to get down, and yet I have been down to Fort Bragg during a rainstorm. Go into the barracks and one will see our soldiers are actually covering up their equipment with their bodies to keep it from rusting. It is a crisis. We are addressing that crisis with this bill. It is a start. We should be doing more than we do with this particular bill.”