The fundamental strength of our Nation's defense is in the strength of our military personnel and their families.

If we do not enact a supplemental, how will this impact the services' fiscal year 2024 base activities?

to lay all of the blame on the current President of the United States I think shortchanges the reality of how Congress has failed.

States put significant amounts of money into National Guard, whether it is tuition reimbursement, whether it is into, you know, equipment, land, and other things like that.

It needs to be resolved. It needs to be resolved immediately.

I voted for the Fiscal Responsibility Act, not because I agreed with the spending levels in the deal, but because this country could not afford to default on its debts.

I hope Congress has learned a hard lesson: that we should not hold our national debt limit hostage over arbitrary spending caps.

I want to commend my good friend, Representative Van Orden. He and Representative Tiffany, we work closely on these issues.

It's not fair. That bridge over the Chippewa River in Glidden, when it needs to be fixed, it should be fixed because those people in small-town America deserve the respect and the appreciation of this town.

It is time for us to take this seriously. We must work swiftly to move, I guess, differently and more effectively of getting most of our eggs out of the basket of China.

We have right sized our eyes and our stomach in this program, having learned very hard lessons over the course of the last almost four years of deployment of the new system.

there's no justification for Mr. Conine's the situation that he's experienced or that his survivor and his family members are experiencing.

We must work across the aisle to protect our elections from these threats.

We need to put guardrails in place when it comes to AI.

I cannot emphasize how important I believe it is to also pass the deepfake bill.

It would create criminal penalties for threats of violence to intimidate voters or election officials.

We must tackle these issues head on.

Election security is truly national security, and these investments must be prioritized as our intel agencies continue to warn about foreign adversaries trying to influence our elections.