After a thwarted attack on Christmas Day and the ongoing threat terrorism poses to our country, a war in Afghanistan, and the possibility of a nuclear Iran now is not the time to lose focus on our national security. As she states, her logic may not have an immediate impact on our troops, but may expose our country and troops to future situations which could have been avoided. The U.S. has always had the most advanced and well-equipped defense forces in the world—and I believe that it should stay that way well into the future. Additionally, the defense industry employs over five million people—most of which are high quality, well paying jobs. As I sat in the House chamber last night to listen to the President give his SOTU address I heard him talk a lot about creating jobs, now the liberal Speaker of the House wants to put millions of jobs in jeopardy. Seems their plan has gotten off-track already less than 24 hours after the President attempted to “reset” his agenda.