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Mr. President, I am here today for the 158th time to ask this Chamber to wake up to the mounting evidence of climate change. The sad truth is that, in Congress anyway, this issue has turned starkly partisan thanks to a torrent of dark…

when we have to try to quantify the damage and we don't get good information because FEMA simply has it wrong, that is very significant.

These wargaming projections indicate NATO's current structure would fail to repel a Russian force invasion of its bordering Baltic neighbors.

The U.S. is positioned to lead NATO to achieve cyber goals.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank you for convening this panel. It has been a great discussion.

It is no secret that over the past decade, the Russian government has conducted increasingly frequent and egregious cyberattacks against NATO countries.

Mr. President, today I want to pay special tribute to an exceptional officer of the U.S. Army, MG Camille M. Nichols. Currently serving as the director of the Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, General…

Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``Yea'' on rollcall No. 100. ____________________

the most powerful economic decision maker in America is Wall Street, and they want us to ignore the devastation of America's working families.

Japan demands that we risk lives to defend these uninhabited islands and that we spend billions.

none of those disputes justify a massive increase in the American military budget.

we focus all of our attention on China's refusal to adhere to international law on these disputes.

the aggression of China in the South China Sea, the East China Sea, is an irritant and maritime disputes and our support for a free, international maritime regime is important.

if China somehow dominated wrongfully and tried to interdict in this area, those tankers would have to change their course, thus increasing the cost of gasoline in Japan by at least 1/10 of 1 cent per gallon.

Mr. Speaker, like the main characters in ``Stranger Things,'' we are now stuck in the ``Upside Down.'' Right is wrong. Up is down. Black is white. The White House deceives the American public for weeks about their contacts with Russia, but…

The Senator from Hawaii is a very kind as well as a very distinguished individual, and he is willing to spot Mr. Pruitt's sincerity in the way he goes about his business. I am a skeptical New Englander, and I think Mr. Pruitt looks a…

Well, on the subject of respect for and obedience to statute, I thought we might want to discuss for a minute the Oklahoma open records law which the attorney general of Oklahoma not only needs to obey, but he needs to enforce it. He is…

If I recall the facts of this correctly, not only did he shut down the environmental unit of the department of the attorney general, but in subsequent reporting you could not find a dollar allocated to environmental activities in the…