mr. buchanan today. he assaulted two staff members. we're going to hear him and get a plea on him and make a decision and see if he'll give us any comments on it because he's on the psych unit, it means i have to go to him and hear the case. they'll bring him out in cuffs and we'll do it there. >> but joe buchanan might have different plans. >> hey, joe, we want to take you back here in the back. >> i ain't going. >> come on, joe. >> i want to plead guilty. >> you don't want to come out, then? >> no. >> let me talk to him for a second. buchanan, you don't want to change your plea or anything? do you want to give a statement? >> i'm guilty. >> okay. i'll come back and let you know what we did, then. >> you can just write it down, all right? >> okay. i accepted his plea of guilty. i'm going to give him a year in seg starting on the 19th. and he's a lifer. so there's nothing else that we can really do to him. so now i'm going to go back and tell him what i did. mr. buchanan, you know you got a year in idu, right? i will tell them know tha

mr. speaker, before i close i want to quote pat buchanan who i have great respect for, particularly on foreignlicy because he and i agree. this is his quote. is it not a symptom of senility to be born from the world to defend the world. is it to the a symptom of senility to be born from the world so we he can defend the world? mr. speaker, i would put one word in there to change. i would change senility to stupidity. i'll read it now. is it not a symptom of stupidity to be born from the world so we can defend the world? mr. speaker, again uncle sam is saying, don't spend money overseas when you got problems here in america. and our veterans are not being adequately cared for. mr. speaker, it's time to end the spending in afghanistan. it's time to stop spending our troops -- sending our troops over thereby to be killed and have their legs blown off an their arms. mr. speaker, before i yield back, i would like to ask god to continue to bless america and bless our men and women in uniform. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon