Madam President, let me thank my colleague, Senator Manchin, for arranging the time to talk about the ongoing opioid epidemic across the country. I know his home State of West Virginia-- much like my home State of Rhode Island--has been…

Mr. Speaker, it has been said that a budget is more than a series of statements or line items. It is really a statement of your values and of your priorities. If that is true, then Donald Trump's anti-working families budget shows he…

The attacks carried about by President Erdogan's so called security detail against American citizens and legal residents were absolutely appalling and will not be tolerated.

I regret that I have to, once again, register my profound disappointment that it is now almost June and this committee still has not considered a single piece of legislation to respond to the unprecedented attack leveled against us by…

I want to thank you and the ranking member for holding this markup today to consider five important bipartisan pieces of legislation, which I am proud to support.

This type of language and the concerted campaign against the gay men of Chechnya is an atrocity that must be condemned in the strongest terms by the international community.

Thank you, gentlemen, for your service. And please tell all the men and women of the Navy and the Marine Corps, well done.

If he has such a document, that would credence to his testimony.

Mr. President, I am here to discuss what you might call the Scott Pruitt philosophy of environmental regulation. In a recent interview, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency expressed his view that the EPA should…

I support the President's commitment to rebuilding the military. However, I am concerned that the current budget request does not go far enough.

We can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

I just don't want us to, you know, let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

I commend the Navy for being very forward leaning on things like directed energy.

To begin to repair the damage that has been done to readiness, and to build the capacity needed for today's dangerous world, we believe that $640 billion is required for fiscal year 2018.

The administration's budget proposal for defense is not enough to do what the President said he wants to do.

Madam Speaker, as co-chair of the Congressional Foster Youth Caucus, I rise in recognition of National Foster Care Month and in honor of the remarkable foster youth alumnus that I am fortunate to host this week: Kennath Forsyth-Sears…

Thank you, Madam Chair. And welcome, Admiral Rogers. I want to thank you for testifying before us today.

But also we have robust cyber threat information sharing, for example, with the Israelis.