We should not tolerate boondoggles as consumers, but we also should not tolerate them as taxpayers.

Pay raises are making an enormous difference in the lives of Transportation Security Officers, Federal air marshals, and other TSA employees across the country.

I strongly supported that effort, and I was glad that we in Congress were able to fulfill TSA's request and fund critical improvements for the workforce.

This year, for the first time, we introduced a bill with an equal number of Republican and Democratic original cosponsors.

For fiscal year 2025, to continue these workforce initiatives, TSA has requested a $377 million increase for periodic pay raises and career ladder promotions.

I am proud to cosponsor Ranking Member Thompson's bill, the Fund the TSA Act, which would end the diversion of passenger security fees and raise fees by $2 per trip to provide TSA with the resources it desperately needs.

I have a lot to say about this airport. This will help GRR and other airports forge a path forward to meet the needs of the region. I thank the chair and ranking member again for working with me, and I urge passage of this bill for my…

Last year, TSA faced a major funding shortfall, as the agency sought more than a $1 billion increase to pay for salary raises and expanded collective bargaining rights.

I thank my friend and colleague from Ohio for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 4510, the NTIA Authorization Act. The legislation includes my bipartisan, bicameral PLAN for Broadband Act, which requires the NTIA, in…

Taxpayers deserve an accounting of why we are not getting what we paid for as promised.

We need the computers, we need the models, and we need to do good things with them, and we need to make sure nobody else is taking advantage of them or finding information.

We are concerned on the plus side of AI of having enough power, and--but we think that AI can help to solve some of that because AI can teach us how to be more efficient as well.

We have got the technology. We have got the ability. We can do this.

No, I do not trust him.

I just want to see the funding commensurate with the potential, and so thank you for your leadership on it.

This is why, speaking of bipartisanship, this is such a bipartisan--I think, the notion of geothermal is a very bipartisan issue.

I urge my colleagues to support this legislation.

I do not trust what they say, but we will verify.