It is an honor especially to welcome you as one Navy veteran to another.

I think it may have been a decade since we had a Senate-confirmed Chief Financial Officer in the Department of Homeland Security. I think that is awful.

How do we do a better job helping the public understand how climate change impacts their daily lives?

There is a debate that is unfolding on the floor today.

I was literally present at the creation for the Department of Homeland Security, and we have seen the transformation of 22 agencies into a single department to serve our country.

Almost everybody says we need people to come to work. One of the greatest needs is in terms of cyber.

An agency with a budget the size of this one, it is an almost $100 billion budget, and that is unacceptable.

We need to strengthen the financial management functions of the Department, and that remains on GAO's High Risk List.

Jeff is exceptionally well qualified to serve as the Department's next CFO, and I know his long-held institutional knowledge and his extensive experience in budget management will serve our country well.

How do we do a better job helping the public understand how climate change impacts their daily lives?

How about heat waves? Absent climate change, would we be experiencing events such as the Pacific Northwest 2021 heatwave, or this past summer's heatwave in the U.S.?

on September 27, the Environment and Public Works Committee favorably reported the Strengthening Coastal Communities Act of 2023 as an original bill by voice vote. This bill, S. 2958, expands and improves the Coastal Barrier Resources Act…

We are providing a significant amount, although our European partners are providing dramatically more.

If we only send weapons to Ukraine, but we fail to support their government and their economy, they will lose to Putin's aggression nonetheless.

As President Biden has made clear from the outset, while Israel has the right--and indeed, the obligation--to defend itself, the way it does so matters.

Everything we do, everything we do we can do better.

We must not give our friends, our rivals, or our foes any reason to doubt America's resolve.

We must not give our friends, our rivals, or our foes any reason to doubt America's resolve.