Mac Thornberry: “This issue is important. Members of this committee hear evidence every week that we are not providing our military with…”

This is substituting the judgment of the administration for the judgment of Congress by reducing specific weapons systems that had been authorized and appropriated.

Article 1 section 8 says it is Congress' responsibility--not just our authority but our responsibility--to provide and maintain, raise and support, make the rules and regulations for the military forces of the United States.

The reason American troops are still in Germany so long after World War II is American national security interests, not just for Europe, and the threat from Russia, but the importance of Germany to U.S. forces as a transit point going to…

President George Bush, in a different context, talked about the soft bigotry of low expectations.