Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. This is not the first time that I have heard my colleagues misgender trans women as biological males, and I need to point something out. Beyond this term being outright offensive, it…

Madam Chair, I thank the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania for yielding. I rise in support of this amendment, which is being sponsored by my colleague and friend from Pennsylvania. The Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act, VAWA, responds…

I think that we can all agree that we are in a bad place.

Madam Chair, I rise today in strong support of legislation introduced by myself and Representative Karen Bass to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. VAWA programs have provided educational tools and helped survivors and their…

I feel like we are playing with everybody's lives in these partisan games.

I'm the co-chair of the Ukrainian Caucus here in Congress. There's been some concern regarding military training, lack of support in Donbas, and the precedent that we're setting by allowing an annexation to occur in clear violation of…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to condemn this administration's latest attempt to do away with the healthcare provided by the Affordable Care Act. The Department of Justice's decision to go after the healthcare of millions of Americans by…

We have heard that the DoD might leave this office and I just wanted to--which causes concern.

I want to reiterate and touch on what Congresswoman Brownley briefly discussed regarding our Subcommittee meeting yesterday.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank all of you for being here and for your service to our country's veterans.

Why would we let them continue on with business as usual?

And the past two National Defense Authorizations have addressed this issue, but just clearly, the Army Corps of Engineers is ignoring Congress in this situation with proceeding with, quite frankly, building a plant at significant cost.

Our statute that this committee has passed and has been incorporated in the NDAAs in the past just calls for multiple sources so that we are not dependent on Russia for their natural gas, because Russia has been known to weaponize energy.

These brave Americans put their lives on the line regularly in the defense of a higher cause, so we have a responsibility to support them in the strongest, most responsible way possible.

I respectfully request the committee's consideration including language in the National Defense Authorization Act that prohibits the authorization of funds for the construction of the ROBMC's onsite co-generation plant.

And so there are two alternatives here. One, ultimately, I mean, if I had the opportunity to have a preference would be to continue the relationship we have with the city of Kaiserslautern that uses multiple sources for generating power…

Considering Russia's willingness to use its energy export as a political tool in the past, or as I would like say, weaponize energy, we need to ensure that our military installations are not subject to Russian interference.

We have this very pressing issue with for-profit colleges that aggressively target veterans and their GI benefits.