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Mr. Speaker, let me also give a shout-out to Ananya Vinay, the 2017 National Spelling Bee champion, from Fresno, California. We are all proud of her accomplishments. Obviously, this young lady has a great future ahead of her…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak about the foundation of healthy living and healthy communities: our food, which comes from our farms. This month is both National Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month and National Dairy Month. Although we…

And also, you know, there's a proposed termination of the Asteroid Redirect Mission.

Mr. Speaker, for more than 7 years, I have spoken out against the broken military justice system that allows commanders to decide how sexual assaults and other criminal offenses are prosecuted under the Uniform Code of Military Justice…

Just continuing on Chairman Babin's line of questioning, with Mars as a longer goal and thinking about that...

I would suggest, Mr. Chairman, one of the things we need to do is to insist that we actually have--if a near-Earth object is spotted coming to the Earth, could kill millions of people, if not even worse--that we should demand someone…

We ought to get serious about space debris before space debris starts hemming us in so much that it's put costly restrictions on our own space program.

It is never in our interest to support a terrorist group like the Islamic State.

I would suggest that it threatens the viability of our entire system.

Isn't it a good thing for us to have the United States finally backing up Sunnis who will attack Hezbollah and the Shiite threat to us?

So that is like Joe Stalin was a horrible guy; we must never associate with horrible guys like that, even to get Hitler.

A benefit of this proposal, with efficiencies, also on the airport infrastructure side--what are some of the anticipated savings that this proposal, just on enhancing the ATC, the airport infrastructure in each of our airports across the…

As well, I fly back to California every week, and I spend a lot of time sitting on runways, waiting to get slotted.

If you don't have a long-term plan, this is just pie in the sky, right?

We think that this has been one of the most legislatively ambitious chairmanships of this subcommittee.

we are going to withhold $1.3 billion until Jo-Ann Burdian is reinstated as the House liaison.

the Navy's budget this year produces no new ships over last year's budget.