I have no further speakers, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Fry) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill, H.R…

I have no further speakers, and I am prepared to close. I yield myself the balance of my time. Madam Speaker, I support S. 2181, as amended, the Keeping Military Families Together Act, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I have no further speakers. In closing, Madam Speaker, I support S. 3126, the Mark Our Place Act, and I yield back the balance of my time.

One of the things that frustrates so many Americans is that our government has gotten involved in doing many things that it really shouldn't be doing, so many excessive regulations and outsized bureaucracies. Then, all too often, it fails…

I thank Chairman Westerman for yielding and for his leadership in moving this bill forward. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of my bipartisan bill, H.R. 7409, Harnessing Energy At Thermal Sources Act, or the HEATS Act. Geothermal…

If Congress does not double the Coast Guard's budget in 2026, the Service will either have to abandon the program, cease construction of Offshore Patrol Cutters, or cut significant portions of its operations.

It's time for Congress to step up.

Unfortunately, the Coast Guard icebreaker mission is woefully underresourced.

The Coast Guard is the premier agency tasked with projecting sovereignty in the Arctic, which is a critically important mission.

I have major concern about the delayed PSC program and the amount of funding actually needed to just get one ship built.

Budgetary decisions associated with the procurement of icebreakers cannot be made in a vacuum.

While recapitalization of the icebreaking fleet was identified as a priority almost two decades ago, we are still several years and over $1 billion away from the delivery of the first Polar Security Cutter.

I thank Mr. McGovern for this Special Order and for giving me a minute to speak, but also for his tremendous leadership because this is such an important issue that I think sometimes gets swept under the rug. There are a couple of things I…

the fact of the matter is, we will not have a presence in the Arctic.

we have continually underfunded the Coast Guard icebreaker program--continually.

the only way we are going to do it is to rethink how we are going to get those icebreakers.

Challenge us--don't dance, come very clear--if we do not have the money for the 8 to 10 icebreakers now or next budget year, we will fail to achieve the necessary presence in the Arctic.

The bottom line here, I am going to ask you guys, is there a national security threat in the Arctic as a result of the inability of the United States to have a presence in the Arctic?