I found out that the Pentagon had failed its first ever independent financial audit in 2017. But more importantly, that the Department of Defense has failed every single audit since then.
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As Congress is debating and considering voting on the next National Defense Authorization Act that will cost the American people $866 billion, I think this is a very important hearing today.
This amendment amends the Higher Education Act, which is not within our jurisdiction.
I urge my colleagues to support this amendment.
Look, as I have said before in other hearings, transparency and accountability are important to the American people.
I oppose the massive amendment that is sitting on our desk.
First of all, as I brought up Senate Bill 202 reduced the problems within the lines.
We are here today because MAGA Republicans will do anything to protect Donald Trump, their savior, no matter how unfounded or dangerous it may be to do so.
My bill, the Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act, which was passed by the House last Congress, would provide Americans in all States access to these truly lifesaving measures.
Extreme risk protection orders play an important role in law enforcement's response to preventing mass shootings from happening.
Just like most everything in the Federal Government, the Federal Government is the problem.
I have some concerns about the proposals as an emissions disclosure, or what we call Scope 3, what effect it will have and what it imposes on our small, family-owned farms and ranches.
It's interesting that when they talk about censoring and politization of something, only one side that I remember was ever censored, and it was our side.
I totally agree that early hypotheses change. As for the politization of this and the accusations made that this is entirely political, I think we do have something to learn about finding out the true origins of this disease.
The IC believes that the origin of COVID-19 is from the lab.
But we didn't see a worldwide pandemic. We didn't see millions of people die. We didn't see governments shut down their economies, take away freedoms such as speech, freedom of religion, freedom basically to work a job and support our…
In Congress, I serve Northwest Georgia first and serve no group in Washington. My America First credentials guided by my Christian faith are forged in steel, seared into my character, and will never change.
These unauthorized agencies, we need to either authorize them, or defund them and get rid of them.