John Thune Calls On Chuck Schumer To Bring NDAA To The Floor For 'Robust Amendment Process'

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At a Senate Republican press briefing on Tuesday, Sen. John Thune (R-SD) spoke about the NDAA.

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00:00The leader is right. The most important job we have as elected officials is the safety

00:11and security of the American people. And so I was very pleased to see Senator Wicker and

00:17members of the Senate Armed Services Committee last week, in a big bipartisan way, pass out

00:22legislation that increases the top line, the defense top line, by $25 billion. I've always

00:29said if you don't get national security right, the rest is really conversation. And I think

00:34it's critically important for all the reasons that the leader mentioned. We've got a land

00:39war in Europe. We have Israel is at war with Hamas terrorists and Iranian proxy groups.

00:46China is increasingly aggressive. These all represent threats to the United States of

00:53America and to our people. And so it is critical, in my view, that the Senate take up the national

00:58defense authorization act. And I would hope that Senator Schumer would decide to do that.

01:06I'm hoping that's the case. But if, you know, passed his prologue, he will push this and

01:13try and push it to the end of the year. I don't think that accords it the priority that

01:18it deserves. I think that this legislation needs to be on the floor of the United States

01:21Senate with a robust amendment process so individual senators have an opportunity to

01:27come and have their voices heard in this very important legislation. But the one thing

01:33I think that is clear in all this, and that is that there are some things that are more

01:38important than politics, and national security happens to be one of them. We're doing a bunch

01:44of a series of show votes. We're voting on all kinds of things that are not going anywhere.

01:49There's no objective or intention to make law or to have any of these things enacted.

01:56They're all political show votes because this is an election season. America's national

02:00security is not a political issue. It is the number one issue when it comes to defending

02:06the safety and security of the American people, and Congress should act like it.

John Thune Calls On Chuck Schumer To Bring NDAA To The Floor For 'Robust Amendment Process'

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