Political Quotes

“The amendment I am offering reduces the salary of Cyrus Salazar, the director of the Department of Defense's Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to $1. You might ask why we would do that. It is a power that we have in the House of Representatives under the Holman rule to try to restrain the executive branch, both in terms of expense, dollars and how they are being used, and in terms of what they are being used for. The American people are frankly getting a little tired of a Department of Defense that is being taken far too often off mission, I hear it all the time. I hear it from veterans. I hear it from Active- Duty servicemembers. I hear it from recruits. With recruiting numbers at low levels, with morale at questionable levels, we need to re- instill in our military a crystal clear focus on mission first. Importantly, when we are--to use the gentlewoman's term, which I take to heart--pinching pennies and trying to find dollars, we need to stop racking up $33 trillion in debt when we can't even figure out how to fund the salaries of our rank-and-file men and women in uniform at the level that we might need to when we are dealing with issues of increasing health costs, when we are dealing with issues of having a fully armed military with the latest and greatest technology to defeat China.…”