This ability to respond and protect, you know, is, again, every bit as important as our ability to protect our fellow citizens against terrorists.
We look forward to working with you to find ways to stretch those dollars further as well.
We can't turn our back on providing the unemployed and underemployed citizens with the services that they need to find a...
If we don't get to a good number in the nondefense area, we will inevitably end up doing something that nobody on either...
We are either going to have a continuing resolution or we are going to have a negotiated bipartisan agreement.
Until we actually get the numbers where we can appropriate, things don't happen.
I think it is a constitutional issue as well. And I think it means a lot when people of your stature tell us that it mat...
Some of us up here have been concerned for a long time about the lack of a new Authorization for Use of Force.
I would probably be a Mississippi Congressman instead of an Oklahoma Congressman if people kept treaties.
Sadly, you know, our history tells us treaties aren't kept very often, frankly.
We have not adequately funded defense. He wants to increase that. I think that is a necessary thing to do.