[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6555]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




      SAVING THE GREAT AMERICAN PATRIOTS OF THE AIR NATIONAL GUARD

  (Mrs. MILLER of Michigan asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MILLER of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, it is my great honor and 
personal privilege to represent Selfridge Air National Guard Base, the 
home of the 107th Fighter Squadron, also known as the Michigan Red 
Devils.
  The 107th flies the A-10, and they just recently returned from a 
redeployment to Afghanistan, where they performed so magnificently, so 
bravely, and made us all proud.
  The 107th was one of the units scheduled to be eliminated under the 
President's proposed budget; but, fortunately, the House Armed Services 
Committee will present a Defense reauthorization bill, scheduled for a 
floor vote here next week, which reverses that and saves the 107th 
along with protecting the Air National Guard across the entire country.
  Instead, the Air Force will be required to do a cost analysis of the 
National Guard cuts, which is very good because the Air National Guard 
performs 35 percent of the flying missions for just 6 percent of the 
budget. That is the best bang for the taxpayers' buck in these very 
restrained budgetary times.
  This House, Mr. Speaker, is going to do the right thing for the great 
American patriots of the Air National Guard, and I urge my colleagues 
in the Senate to do the same.

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