Marilyn Strickland: “Reclaiming my time, please, Mr. Speaker, I will acknowledge that the gentleman's statistics are correct, but what has…”

I represent Joint Base Lewis-McChord, one of the largest military installations on the west coast.

But I think solving the problem means coming up with a dollar amount and not being afraid to say it is a lot of money.

You may know our time through records and history books, but I hope you remember that we were ordinary people as well. Our system is imperfect, but it rests on a simple and powerful idea: that people can govern themselves, debate their…

I ask you one more time: Who are we as a nation? And more importantly, who are you?