I thank the gentlewoman from North Carolina for pulling us together. Madam Speaker, when you talk about issues that are women's issues, right now national security is at the top of the heap. As we have talked about soccer moms and Walmart moms and all of these other iterations and descriptions during the years, right now we are looking at a category of security moms because the issue of security is what mothers are talking about. I appreciate so much the gentlewoman from North Carolina's leadership, and we have two other colleagues who have yet to join us-- Ms. Ros-Lehtinen from Florida and Mrs. Lummis from Wyoming--to talk about this issue. Coast to coast, this is what people are talking about, and they sit in disbelief at what this administration is doing. Whether it is Iran or whether it is other foreign policy, our friends and allies look at us, as the gentlewoman from Alabama said, and they ask: ``What are you doing? Where have you been? What are you thinking?'' As we would say in Nashville, ``They have got a thinking problem.'' Our enemies look at us and say: ``Asleep at the wheel. This is our opportunity.'' That is exactly what Iran is doing, and they are looking at what we are doing to our military. I thank the gentlewoman from Alabama for talking about her love for Fort Rucker and the men and women there.…
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