The majority of Americans tell pollsters that they support Roe v. Wade, but at the same time they also tell those pollsters that abortion should be banned after 15 weeks.

Shouldn't respect for democracy leave these issues to the people through their elected representatives?

If Congress is given enumerated powers, I don't find abortion one way or another among those enumerated powers.

I do think there is a clear consensus that if somebody is lying unconscious in a hospital bed and they have a heartbeat and a brain wave they are a human being.

Mr. Speaker, I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Add at the end of subtitle A of title X the following new section: SEC. 1004. REDUCTION…

Mr. Speaker, I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of subtitle A of title X, insert the following: SEC. 10__. REDUCTION IN…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the Lee-Pocan amendment No. 13 to cut $100 billion from the fiscal 2023 Defense Authorization Act. The amendment is structured so that this cut would…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time for closing. Mr. Speaker, it is really past time for Congress to start demanding that the Pentagon exercise some fiscal discipline that we impose against and across all of the Federal…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Chairman Smith as well as Ranking Member Rogers for their leadership to include various measures in the underlying bill that will aid the Department of Defense's effort to prevent and mitigate civilian harm, including…

Mr. Speaker, I urge adoption of the amendment, and I just point out that a lot of these requirements already have passed. They are in the 2018 NDAA. The amount of money we are talking about here is less than 0.01 percent, so it will not…

Madam Speaker, I thank Chairman Smith for his extraordinary leadership and having a strong amendment to affirm the U.S.-India defense partnership. I thank Ranking Member Rogers for making this amendment truly bipartisan. There is no…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. First of all, I would hope Republicans would join Democrats in a bipartisan fashion like you did just now on this outrageous amendment in supporting the efforts to reduce the cost of…

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Smith), the chairman of the Armed Services Committee.

Madam Speaker, once again, we stand at the precipice of making a monumental change in the lives of our servicemen and servicewomen and veterans. Yet, here we are voting on the Honoring our PACT Act for the third time because of a Senate…

Mr. Speaker, I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of subtitle E of title V, add the following new section: SEC. 5__. EXCLUSION…

Mr. Speaker, I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of subtitle D of title V, add the following new section: SEC. 5__. PUBLIC…

Mr. Speaker, is there time remaining in opposition or should I close? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Alabama has time remaining.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. First of all, my colleague says that we already have laws against the military unlawfully engaging in the enforcement of domestic policy. We only have laws against certain branches of…