Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I am very grateful to support the National Defense Authorization Act. I appreciate so much the leadership of Chairman Mike Rogers and Ranking Member Adam Smith for their diligent work for providing this crucial National Defense Authorization Act for peace through strength. This is a bipartisan legislation including critical provisions for the Palmetto State, including its military bases and critical missions at the Savannah River site. As a 31-year veteran of the Army National Guard, myself along with three sons who have served in Iraq, Egypt, and Afghanistan, I especially appreciate this legislation which supports the deployment of the National Guard to the southern border, cuts inefficient programs and bureaucracy, and guts programs at the Department of Defense. It reaffirms congressional support for our allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific by countering Chinese Communist Party influence, by fully funding military information operations assistance to the region. It also ensures Israel has adequate stocks of air defense interceptors to defend itself against the regime in Tehran. War criminal Putin and dictators like Assad must be deterred from invasions. Additionally, the NDAA fully supports and requires plutonium pit production at the Savannah River Site and Los Alamos National Laboratory.…”