Thank you for being here. It means a great deal to all of us and not just the folks in Palisades, the folks in Altadena that were devastated. We're going to need your support. We're going to need your help.
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We have to call out this president when he's not normal.
Good on Gavin Newsom for being the bigger person to show up and say, Mr. President, I'm glad you're here.
It is absolutely false to say that FEMA is getting in the way.
I think what our governor is doing, he's saying to the president without so many words, this -- this is a moment we have to come together for the people who are hurting. And by the way, you don't attach strings about, you know, voting to…
I'm hopeful that despite the president's political rhetoric and attacks, that people like Senator Rick Scott, former governor of Florida, who knows what it is to deal with the disaster. Senator Thom Tillis from North Carolina, whose state…
The level of water flowing to Southern California from the north today is the exact same as it was during the first Trump administration.
And we expect the federal government in our country to be there for us without conditions, without strings attached. So, to suggest that is unconscionable.
Can you imagine if President Biden told the people of Florida, I'm not going to give you disaster relief unless you change your gun laws or Louisiana with your abortion laws. It's unconscionable.
I mean, its offensive. It's insulting. It's never been done before in the history of our country, as I think prior speakers have said.
Often the public out there sees Democrats and Republicans fighting and wonder: Where did that comity go? Where did the sense of being together go? Well, Mr. Speaker, this past December over the Christmas holiday, I was surprised by one of…
I thank the gentleman from South Dakota for this bill. I urge my colleagues to support it, and I yield back the balance of my time.
I look forward to working with our friends across the aisle on the accounting issue that has been discussed here today. Obviously, we want to make sure that the Forest Service is not taking advance credit for phases of projects that…
If he is careless with that awesome power, the United States could very well find itself in another world war.
The president, as commander in chief, has the power and responsibility to determine America’s future security.
Autocrats that once operated in their own spheres of influence have now joined together in an axis of mutual support and aggression.
Mr. Trump has always prided himself on being a dealmaker, pledging in his campaign that he would resolve such conflicts in the first few days of his presidency.