I will take that as a sign that the brinkmanship over raising the debt ceiling will end in the interest of national security, although I am not optimistic.

Now that the War is over, we must continue to be proactive in ensuring that terrorist organizations in Afghanistan never develop the capacity to threaten the American homeland again.

Simple fairness is reason enough to end this rigged system.

So, when it comes to right whale deaths, we must focus on the real problem, based on the data and not based on conspiracies spread by the fossil fuel industry and its allies.

These falsehoods are being amplified by irresponsible politicians and fringe media figures, many of whom gladly take financial support from the oil and gas industry at the same time.

Congress can do and must do more to help prevent unnecessary whale deaths and support the industries trying to comply with regulation.

This corrupted Tax Code lets billionaires pay an average tax rate of just 8.2 percent, less than half the rate of a typical teacher or firefighter.

That Trump-Taliban deal did not include a comprehensive cease-fire, did not include any plan for providing protection for Afghan nationals...

Thank you, Chairman Wilson, and thank you to you and Ranking Member Phillips for calling this important hearing.

Restoring the North Atlantic right whale populations requires a coordinated effort between the Federal Government and industry stakeholders.

If we allow companies and wealthy Americans to avoid paying taxes by going offshore, we can assume that they will follow that incentive.

Letting billionaires pay low or zero tax rates costs America $550 billion.

I think we have a problem of economic injustice.

the 2023 humanitarian response plan for Syria is only funded at 6 percent

When it became clear that Afghan nationals who risked their own lives to help the United States in our mission were not being protected from Taliban retribution, was there ever any indication from the Trump administration that they were…

We also need to make sure that, as we discussed in our previous round of questioning, we explore all options for monitoring and eliminating terrorist threats emanating from Afghanistan.

We passed the Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act last Congress, a bill I worked on with Senators Grassley and Durbin and Leahy and Congresswoman Spartz here in the House, to make sure that we had additional ways to hold war criminals…

Going forward, we must make sure that we learn the lessons from withdrawal, that we work across agencies in an entirety-of-government approach to ensure that we maintain the capabilities necessary to meet terrorist threats wherever they…