Mac Thornberry: “I think it is vital to pull small businesses in, not just through SBIR programs but actually to couple them to the core…”

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

I believe that the primary function of Congress is to fund common defense to protect American families, to do for us what we cannot do for ourselves.

It seems unwise to me to start launching missiles.

This issue is important. Members of this committee hear evidence every week that we are not providing our military with the funding they need.