I am one of the dozen or so Democrats on the National Security Committee who voted in favor of this bill. That is one indication that I have a somewhat different perspective on this bill than some of my colleagues. I do not want to get any…

Mr. Chairman, I think this is an ill-advised amendment for essentially five reasons. First, under this amendment, only troops stationed in Europe could be assigned to work on our borders. Why should we pay to fly troops to Europe only to…