Rep. Tim Burchett
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It's not my dad going to war.
I'm not sending my 18 year old daughter to a,
a country that most members of Congress couldn't find on a dadgum globe.
And so you have, we give them our missile defense system, and then we have to replenish ours, which we should.
We can't be left naked without any of that defense.
And guess what?
Some of those contractors we described get a multi-billion with a B dollar no-bid contract.
And who do you think has bought stock in that company?
Yeah.
members of Congress, two weeks prior to the president making that official notice.
And you see it time and time again.
I mean, do you honestly believe members of Congress are making five and six?
You've met some of these guys.
I mean, they can't come in out of the rain, some of them.
I mean, I'm guilty of that as well.
return on their, five and 600% return on their investment.
And war is great for business.
It's great for the economy, but it's not good for, I don't think it's good for ourselves.
It's a great idea.
I have the bill to do it.