I look forward to working with the members of this subcommittee and others in the Legislative and Executive branches to ensure that the United States maintains its historic lead in the development and application of powerful technologies.

I come to the floor to speak about a troubling issue for our Navy, our national defense, and a problem that should be of concern to Members of this body. Our Navy pilot training installations, including Naval Air Station Meridian in my…

In March 2016, TSA launched the Innovation Task Force as a platform for collaboration between TSA, airports, air carriers, and security technology stakeholders in furtherance of the development and integration of innovative security…

I thank the gentleman from Georgia for yielding me the time. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 455, a bill to designate the United States courthouse in Jackson, Mississippi, as the R. Jess Brown United States Courthouse. Mr. Speaker…

I think the previous administration was preoccupied, it became preoccupied with other problems in the Middle East, with Russia, continuing constraints on defense spending.

I agree that the general concept, the idea that we need to focus more of our resources on the Asia-Pacific, was the right one.

I was saddened to learn that an American member of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine was killed this past weekend by a landmine. Joseph Stone was carrying out his duties in territory controlled by Russian-backed separatists…

I am not confident that either of those two conditions would actually be obtained.

the Commission's efforts [to promote broadband deployment in unserved and underserved areas] must accurately target every area that is in need of support so that no one is left behind.

We appreciate that the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and the Senate play important roles in crafting the annual eligible conditions list.

The Sleep Research Society is pleased to submit this statement for the record asking you to provide $250 billion for the Department of Defense (DOD) Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program.

I am so scared with all this BCA [Budget Control Act] and sequestration and all these things that people are failing to understand that we are at critical risk in this Nation of asking our armed services to take massive casualties because…

I rise to express my strong support for Judge Neil Gorsuch, to say that I will proudly vote in favor of his confirmation tomorrow, and to express my confidence that history will judge this nominee to be an outstanding Associate Justice of…

Well, let me shift briefly in the 2 minutes I have to this issue of on-dock railway access.

I've taken a strong position, though, against the idea of forcing the Twin 33 trailers on states.

I hope we get an infrastructure bill. I hope you're all enormously successful because that will mean the economy is successful.

The establishment and authorization of the Department of Homeland Security's Joint Task Forces was a major priority for former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson.

spending billions on a boondoggle border wall to satisfy a slogan used throughout the 2016 Presidential campaign season is a terrible use of American taxpayer money and bad border policy.