Jim Cooper actually said...

It is relatively easy to beat up on troop caps, or FMLs, as a flawed device.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but lest we be more critical than we are forward-focused, I would challenge the members of this subcommit...

The public back home really doesn’t care about these places. They really do care about our troops.

Now, there are band-aids here or there but really there is no alternative so it is not a question of if we had only done the Republican plan...