If we pass this budget that the Republicans want to put before us today, the State Department will continue to be destroyed.

But that is never going to be more important than it is going forward, given the fiscal situation that we are in and given the threat environment that is as described.

We cannot do new starts, we cannot get into cyber protection, the very thing you hold dear, because we do not have the ability to do so under continuing resolutions, 9 out of the last 10 years.

I have an enormous amount of respect for the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, but I would remind everybody that, back in September, he and a majority of the Armed Services Committee Republicans voted against the CR, in September…

To say that it is not worth doing is like saying, hey, we have screwed it up so bad for so long...

I applaud your commitment to doing this, and stand ready to have the committee help you in any way we can.

I think the taxpayers deserve at least the same level of confidence as a shareholder in the use of their money.

This is enormously important. There are a lot of concerns at the Pentagon.

I too want to specifically thank Mr. Conaway for his great leadership on this issue.

May I inquire as to how much time each side has remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Washington has 6 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Texas has 12 minutes remaining.

I am prepared to close, and I yield myself the balance of my time. As has been mentioned, this is an excellent bill that a lot of people did very good work on. I thank them for that. The only issue I want to raise in closing is the money…

I just really want to support Mr. Langevin for his leadership on this issue, something that we brought up in committee, and a program that really should be just discontinued, and I think the motion to instruct is perfectly appropriate. It…