House Speaker impasse hurting national security, vet lawmakers warn

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House Speaker impasse hurting national security, vet lawmakers warn
By Leo Shane III
 Jan 4, 07:54 PM
Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., gestures during a news conference in a Capitol Hill studio on on Jan. 4 alongside Republicans veterans who support Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., for Speaker of the House. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

A group of Republican lawmakers who previously served in the military on Wednesday decried the recent chaotic start to the new session of Congress as potentially damaging to national security and veterans’ welfare, and urged their conservative colleagues to find a political solution immediately.

“Right now, Rep. Don Bacon and I were supposed to be meeting with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to talk about matters in the Indo-Pacific,” said Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wisc. and a Marine Corps veteran, at the hastily arranged press conference. “But I’m informed by House security, that technically, I don’t have a clearance … to conduct that essential business.

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