These hearings have shone a light on the importance of passing legislation to strengthen that effort.

According to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, tribal communities need over 13,600 additional law enforcement personnel just to meet the FBI's Community Safe standard.

Today I rise to recognize a newly retired public servant and good friend of mine from the State of Washington, representative Joel Kretz. Since 2005, Joel has been dutifully serving the people of Washington's 7th legislative district. As…

Here I was coming to the floor thinking that I could support an amendment that made sense to me about fighting the scourge of fentanyl, and I do support the amendment because I think data will be good for us. I just would say to my friend…

This amendment requires the Attorney General to report on how local officers and resources have been reallocated to combat fentanyl trafficked through the border. I do not oppose the amendment because the amendment itself, like the…

This amendment furthers the major drafting problems in this legislation by asking the Attorney General to report on how the so-called Biden border crisis impacted law enforcement recruiting. As I said earlier, there is no definition for…

I claim the time in opposition to the amendment, even though I am not opposed to it. The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentlewoman from Washington is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.

The Nunn amendment requires the Attorney General to report on how much each State spent on investigating fentanyl trafficked through the border. I do not oppose this amendment because it does not repeat the same misleading talking points…

I am prepared to close, and I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Chairman, while you may not know it from some of the language that is being used today, we are debating a poorly written ``reporting bill'' that will do nothing. This…

May I ask how much time is remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Washington has 15 minutes remaining.

I will be introducing a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act to overturn the final 10(j) rule.

This amendment requires that the Department of Homeland Security provide an annual report to the Judiciary Committee of the House and the Senate containing the number of immigrants the Department detained as a result of this bill in that…

I claim the time in opposition to the amendment, even though I am not opposed to it. The CHAIR. Without objection, the gentlewoman from Washington is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.

I want to see a better balance than increasing nuclear weapon activities by 4 percent to nearly $20 billion, while decreasing nuclear nonproliferation and cleanup by 4-and-a-half percent and over 2 percent, respectively.

I will be insisting on parity between new resources for defense and nondefense.

This amendment requires the Government Accountability Office to conduct a study and report to Congress on the number of undocumented immigrants detained for committing an assault against a law enforcement officer over the past 5 years. It…

This amendment would expand the scope of this already bad bill to include campus police and school resource officers under the term ``law enforcement officers.'' Unfortunately, this amendment makes a bad bill even worse while highlighting…

The climate crisis is more than a rolling series of devastating weather disasters. It is also an economic threat and a national security threat.