12/12/2016
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"I have heard a lot of my colleagues talking about how we are just going to do a CR [Continuing Resolution] this year. That would be a complete and total disaster for the United States military, for th..."
"You can't both vote to cut the discretionary budget and then complain at the DOD for not spending enough money."
"If you are going to meet the ridiculous number that was set yesterday by the House, you would have to cut everything else by roughly 50 percent."
"Yesterday, the House voted to go back to the fiscal year 2022 level. All of the Republicans voted for it; no Democrats voted for it."