Ike Skelton
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"Isaac Newton "Ike" Skelton IV" was an United States/American politician who was the United States House of Representatives/U.S. Representative for from 1977 to 2011. During his tenure, he served as the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. He was a member of the Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic Party. On November 2, 2010, he lost his seat to Vicky Hartzler.

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For each 1 percent pay raise it is about a $600 million, so a billion dollars won't cut the mustard.

We need an immediate supplemental appropriation right now -- for seamen hours, flying hours, training, for combined, for joint exercises, for backlot and real estate maintenance, for family housing. All of these are necessary right now. Otherwise a bunch of the efforts of the military will be shut down.

We need to succeed in Iraq. If we don't, we will create a snake pit ... of terrorists.

It's been a long ride ... to get us to this point in the base-closure process. This journey has been more difficult than it needed to be.

For each 1 percent pay raise, is about $600 million -- so $1 billion just won't cut the mustard.

All of these are necessary right now. Otherwise, much of the efforts of the military will be shut down.

We have very, very fine air traffic controllers, men and women. They do their job, they do a fine job, and there's no sense in our trying to bend to their culture.

The Balkans are a tinder box ... World War I started there ... there's a great deal at stake -- the stability of Europe.

We need an immediate supplemental appropriation -- right now.