Gerry Connolly actually said...

Well, first the time I went to Beijing was in 1986, and there were a lot of bicycles in Beijing.

It is unfathomable to me that a four-star commander in the field would take guidance from a staffer in the bureaucracy.

Thank God there were low-level people telling the President a different thing than Curtis LeMay during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

I think we need to tread lightly. I don't think that the legislation only ought to have the imprint of the Armed Services Committee.