The House Armed Services Committee is under new management, and its old chairman is taking issue with statements by his successor over the military’s actions along the U.S.-Mexico border.

At the panel’s first hearing of the year, its ranking Republican member, Rep. Mac Thornberry of Texas, challenged a statement by its new chairman, Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., arguing there was no precedent for military to be sent to the U.S.-Mexico border.

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