I couldn't help but sit there thinking: How much is this costing us?

If you have a high attrition rate, then the costs of retraining are significant.

Skilled women and men are abandoning the military in response to a persistent plague of harassment, assault, and degradation.

But simply adding manpower will not address the personnel challenges of today and tomorrow.

A lot of these issues arise in the military.

Mr. Speaker, today I rise in honor of the men and women who protect our families, our streets, and our communities. Fifty-five years ago, President Kennedy proclaimed May 15 National Police Week. Each year, Americans come together to honor…

I also want to express my deep concerns about the FCC/Chairman Pai's proposal to undo the net neutrality rules.

It is my opinion that reducing the net neutrality rules will continue to harm the economy.

We have seen an increase in our trade deficit with ASEAN every year since 2006.

These are political decisions made in Hanoi which understands that the American foreign policy establishment will look the other way.

Vietnam doesn't have freedom, Vietnam doesn't have markets.

Mr. Speaker, this is Infrastructure Week. Infrastructure. Can you imagine Congress actually talking about building things that America needs, like roads, high-speed internet, and maybe a few ports and ships and high-speed trains from here…

People are dying in Venezuela. They are dying in the streets because of lack of access to medicine and food.

The original people of those communities or of those countries are often relocated, rivers are blocked or they are dammed.

We have to get it done. Instead, we waste sometimes a year, year and a half, and the value of the wood is pretty much shot by then.

And there is one reason why it is so important that we make sure that we don't make deep cuts to Medicaid.

If we don't get citrus greening under control, it will be Brazilian orange juice pretty soon.

We have a lot of issues going on. I have a northern California district, top of the state, and one of the things that we are very, very, concerned about is USDA's oversight of the Forest Service.