I certainly agree with my friend Ms. Foxx that the goal should be to strive to move to zero in terms of improper payments.

Mr. Speaker, I agree with my friend from Maryland. Official time is a very useful tool in the Federal workplace, both for management and for labor, and has proved its worth over the years. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman…

Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend because I am going to run out of time. I must say to my friend, my prepared remarks were designed to support this bill.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. In attempting to summarize, Mr. Speaker, I do want to reiterate that my friend from Florida is an honorable man. When he says this is about one thing, I believe him. Perhaps in the…

Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 1 minute to the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia.

I exhort the chairman, it was our understanding that the Engel-Connolly bill on sanctions against countries that interfere in our elections was going to be in the markup scheduled today.

Mr. Speaker, I must say, the gentleman from Florida, who is an honorable man and a friend, and we have collaborated, but his own words transformed what this really was. They persuaded us that by voting for this, we are not voting for a…

Mr. Speaker, I am certainly gratified for the clarification of my friend. It now gives me great pleasure to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Lynch), my good friend and a senior member of the Oversight and Government…

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Michigan (Mrs. Lawrence), my dear friend.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from New Jersey (Mrs. Watson Coleman), my friend.

Mr. President, today I am introducing legislation to authorize a game-changing scale of investment in making America's infrastructure more resilient to natural disasters. The BUILD Resilience Act would build on the National Disaster…

90 percent of the deterrent power of this buildup could be achieved in the first year.

Our adversaries, our competitors look at our budgetary situation and see that as a weakness.

I am on the HELP Committee and one of the goals of Chairman Alexander and Ranking Member Murray is to rewrite the Higher Ed Act during this term in Congress.

Last week, the CNO, Admiral Richardson, released a white paper titled 'The Future Navy,' and his conclusion was this...

I visited the apprentice school in Newport News. You had a wonderful program last year.

If we fail to grow the Navy with the highly capable ships that will be necessary to operate in the kinds of environments they are going to face, we are going to undermine the security assurances we provide to our allies, and that will…

I am not sure how you are soliciting for a new system without a new authorization.