It is hard to find a legal justification for that military strike in Syria, absent congressional approval.
Mac Thornberry
The Public Record
I hope we don't give in to those, I hope we remember that the troops should come first.
If you take away money, you can't do some of the things that--you take away things from the--money from the defense budget, you can't do some of those things that you were trying to do, like add pilots or repair ships or those other sort…
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.
This issue is important. Members of this committee hear evidence every week that we are not providing our military with the funding they need.
Requiring that the Department conduct an audit has been a bipartisan priority of this committee for some time.
In the coming weeks, Chairman Mac Thornberry and I, in addition to my ranking member, Jim Langevin, and the HASC ranking member, Adam Smith, plan to introduce standalone cyber warfare legislation that strengthens congressional oversight of…





