Steve Russell: “Without changing this mentality of incentives we will never have reform occur.”

You know, if we try to promote human rights through the education of military officers, most of which will grow up to be major commanders and generals in that nation and, you would hope, would be trained in our values, you know, they can…

The more that we feed this narrative that our Nation does not have the will and the resolve to get things done is part of the problem.

One of our challenges here on this Committee is to get out enough to the field and to get people here that can tell us what they deal with every day in the heartland.

Why should we pay and why should the Government be charged to collect something that was already theirs?