I am concerned that the authority will start to use the grant money as a slush fund.

California has received $3.55 billion in Federal funding.

the Super Hornet is vital to addressing the Navy's strike fighter shortfall.

I fully support giving our armed services the resources they need to execute their missions.

I am hopeful that the fiscal year 2018 budget request will demonstrate our sustained commitment to addressing this shortfall.

The magnitude of the Navy's shortfall is so large that single-year solutions are not the ultimate answer.

The fiscal year 2018 budget should support the introduction of the Block III Super Hornet to the fleet.

These communities depend on Federal community development funding for housing, infrastructure, community facilities.

What I am seeing from my point of view, it gives Putin the ability to get whatever he wants.

I think one of the things that I am very concerned about, and just in the last month or so, I probably have been in about 10 different countries: Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, a lot of these different countries.

But when we pull back, when we don't go on our budgeting and what you are doing, it gives China the ability to be the more powerful person in the world and take a position that we are pulling back.

livestock haulers in my district and across the country have a challenging task of balancing both the safety of motorists and the health and welfare of animals being transported.

Does the Department of Transportation require detailed reports on how the California High-Speed Rail Authority is spending those Federal dollars?

Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of the FY2017 Defense Appropriations bill. I commend Chairman Frelinghuysen, Ranking Member Lowey, our new Chairwoman Granger and Ranking Member Visclosky for their leadership on this bill. I would…

We need a budget agreement. We need the administration, we need the Senate, the House to come to a workable number.

we need a budget agreement. We need the administration, we need the Senate, the House to come to a workable number that we can agree to get rid of the sequestration and the Budget Control Act

from 2001 to 2014, the Active-Duty military has shrunk by 4 percent while the number of civilian defense employees has grown by 15 percent.

We cannot afford to be at war because we did not have the capable military force to deter all foreign forces.