What I am kind of seeing here, and this is just me being a conspiracy theorist, but after watching the Coast Guard for a couple of years, if you do a block buy or a multiyear contract, basically you are--and it is approved, the Coast Guard…

there is no military requirement right now for an icebreaker.

the current AUMF is rife with ambiguity in there

We owe it to our men and women who are making that ultimate sacrifice to their families to clear up this ambiguity.

Doesn't seem ambiguous.

The American people expect us as their representatives to engage in the necessary things.

I would argue we are not doing our job by not having the courage to engage in what are not easy conversations.

But, again, that is our job, right?

There is no greater responsibility that we have when we send someone's son or daughter, mother or father, husband or wife, into harm's way and, again, I feel that this body owes it to them to have that debate.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the House appropriations package that will provide $1.6 billion for the construction of President Trump's border wall. As a member of the House Armed Services Committee, I have heard from many military…

I would like to thank our chairman, Mr. Royce, and Mr. Engel for calling this hearing.

Neither one of those countries is going to succeed as long as there is violence and force.

I think that what we have here is, after the fall of communism in Russia, things for whatever happened, whatever reason, over the years, instead of trying to help Russia become part of Western Europe...

I think trying our hardest to bring peace between Ukraine and Russia, that type of approach is going to do much more in the long-term.

I think just shipping more weapons into Ukraine is going to make things worse.

But the fact is that what you need to do if we are going to have peace is to stop going with that belligerent attitude and try to find solutions.

I believe in sunsets but I also believe that once you have provided an authorization of force that the executive branch should be able to do their job and do it right.

I think this is the type of hearing we need to have where you have various points of view being expressed.