Derrick Van Orden: “Outstanding. Well, thank you very much for coming.”

I thank the gentleman from Utah for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I look at this issue from a different perspective. I was a combat medic in the United States Navy SEALs teams for over two decades. If I had encountered an enemy combatant that was…

I remind my Democrat colleagues that I was raised in abject, rural poverty by a single mother on food stamps when you had a stamp that you stuck on a card. I had subsidized government lunches and government cheese. We do have to know that…

So, all of our children, we raise them to love this country because we tell them the truth about this country, and they understand that America is the most awesome place that has ever existed in the history of the planet.

He just said that they trusted the departments to, you know, instead of using a cudgel to use a scalpel to get rid of people that are unproductive.