When you cannot pound the table, I guess some of my Democratic colleagues choose to pound the witnesses. That was inexcusable.

It is the responsibility of this Committee to pursue the truth and report it to the American people.

This provision protects life and restores sanity to the Department of Defense. Mr. Speaker, I urge all Members to oppose the motion, and I yield back the balance of my time.

May I inquire as to how much time I have remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Alabama has 18 minutes remaining.

I share the sentiment of the most recent speaker. I think it is shameful that the DOD has been playing games with the troops in this country. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Illinois (Mrs. Miller).

2 hours ago, Senator Schumer announced that we will be voting on the Commandant of the Marine Corps, the Army Chief of Staff, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It is about time. I have called for individual votes on these…

I have one correction to make, that this is a new policy. This was not existing policy. It was announced on October 20 against the advice of the congressional leadership and finalized on February 16. They didn't just take existing policy…

this is my third year serving on the Senate Ag Committee. This is my first time getting to work on a farm bill. The farm bill comes around every 5 years. It sets national policy on agriculture, nutrition, conservation, and forestry. In…

In addition to that, the names of 350,861 employees were also redacted, which I think causes a serious problem in terms of oversight.

One of the things that concerns me, Mr. Chairman, about where we are on this issue is President Biden issued a declaration saying that the Federal workforce would return to office.

I believe it is the largest U.S. reserves of cobalt, which is absolutely critical to the Democrat agenda for completely restructuring our power grid and going to all renewables, which will be an economic and national security disaster…

I think, in my opinion, is a threat to representative government because nobody elected these people to do this.

today, as our Nation marks the 22nd anniversary of the September 11 attacks, we mourn the loss of some 3,000 Americans who were murdered by terrorists. It was one of the darkest days in our history. Just last week, we marked another sad…

Over the last 2 years, the SEC has proposed nearly double the number of rules that your two predecessors proposed within the same amount of time.

I think we are going to have to reevaluate how we address this, and it needs to be a bipartisan effort.

I think if we want to talk success and dealing with fentanyl, ... that is not exactly success by anyone's definition.

You can have all the money you want, but if you do not have the people working for you it is not going to work.

I think that the cartels ought to be classified as non-state adversaries.