Rep. Adam Smith
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500 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
Rep. Adam Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I don't control what the majority does by any stretch of the imagination.
Yes, I will advocate for the removal of that provision.
I don't know that I would go that far.
It depends on what else is in the bill.
I mean, look, the bill itself has the massive problem that it's continuing to fund the war in Iran, which is an utter disaster.
So I am probably not going to vote, well, almost certainly not going to vote for the bill as it comes off the House floor now, just in and of itself, regardless of that particular section.
Just because of that one section, I don't know that I would vote against the entire bill.
Yeah.
Well, there's a couple of layers to that.
First of all, and this is where we get into some of those divisions within the Democratic Party.
I believe that we do need to have a Department of Defense.
We need to support our troops.
We have national security threats that we have to be prepared to deal with.
All right.
Well, there are some.
Look, the Democratic Socialists of America in their platform is defund the Department of Defense.
It's in their platform.
Yeah, no, they've they've.
But it's part of the DSA platform.
OK.
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