The United States seeks to preserve peace and stability, and maintain our strategic advantage in an area that is critically important to America's political, economic, and security interests.

I don't think there is really any doubt that we ought to fund the supplemental as quickly as we can.

What we need from CDC is for you to communicate through our U.S. Senators, our Members of Congress, our Governors, what it is that is required.

I think even if we are able to fund this supplemental, and I anticipate that we will be, the vector-control piece has to be at least partly funded by State and local governments.

This is going to be a political decision. This is going to be an appropriations decision.

I rise to join my colleagues in condemning North Korea's belligerence in East Asia. For decades North Korea has starved its people, sponsored criminal misconduct and cyber attacks, and bullied South Korea. In the last month it has violated…

The Air Force is breaking ground on a project this year at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam that will use utility-scale clean power.

Given the Importance of the rebalance to the Asia-Pacific to the Joint Force, do you think the Air Force is sufficiently investing in the cyber capabilities it needs to protect our forces from the threats we face from potential competitors…

I agree that our lead in the area of air superiority is shrinking and that our adversaries are developing increasingly sophisticated and in some cases superior systems.

Energy assurance is therefore critical for the Air Force in a different way.

Admiral Harry B. Harris, Jr. at PACOM has spoken about the need for advanced weapons systems to defeat our potential adversaries and to operate in a contested environment.

In 2005, 5-year-old Talia Williams was beaten to death by her own father, who was stationed at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii at the time. Talia suffered through months and months of abuse from her father and her stepmother, which ultimately…

Today I rise in favor of a bill my friend and colleague Tulsi Gabbard and I have introduced. H.R. 3894, Talia's Law, gets its name from a 5-year-old girl named Talia Williams who was beaten to death at the hands of her father, an Army…

Today we are gathered and rising in memory of the 12 United States Marines stationed at the Kaneohe Marine Corps base in my district who were tragically lost the night of January 14 in a training accident. We must never forget the risks…

The Universal Service program was created to make sure that all Americans have the security and the opportunities that come with being connected.

Being a citizen today means being connected to the Internet.

This high-cost CAF support is essential to ensure access to all Americans regardless of geography.

It is, therefore, critical that we use it wisely to reach the most people possible.