Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Maine for yielding time. I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I stand here very troubled with the legislation the Democrats in charge have chosen to bring forward today. While the…

I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, I understand the need, again, to protect water and to protect estuaries. We all understand that. I grew up carrying water to my home, so I understand the value of water about as much as…

Mr. Speaker, again, I constantly find it amazing how our colleagues want to rewrite history and how they assume that nobody is going to check up on what they are saying. That's not happening these days. I want to remind my colleagues that…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Maine failed to mention her own State and what it is doing, and I find it very interesting. I have an article from June 24, 2009, from The Wall Street Journal…

Mr. President, I thank the Senator from Virginia for helping us come together to talk about this issue because it is of critical importance. In North Carolina, we have two justices for the Fourth Circuit Court coming before this body. They…

Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague (Ms. Fudge) for yielding, and I thank her and Mrs. McMorris Rogers for their support of H. Res. 1242 and their help in bringing it to the floor. I am the proud sponsor of this resolution, which…

Mr. Speaker, let me first thank the gentleman for yielding time and thank him for his leadership on the committee and subcommittee, as well as the leadership of the ranking member. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to support H.R. 3125, the…

Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the hard work and dedication of a young woman I recently met back home in North Carolina. Tara Schiphof was crowned the 2009/2010 Junior Miss North Carolina last summer at the age of 11. When I met Tara…

During this time, we've achieved success in Iraq, meeting our goal of an orderly drawdown and transfer of security responsibilities to a democratically elected government of Iraq.

We know that Iran's nuclear weapons program, along with its military assistance to groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and the insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan, serves as a threat to our national security interest.

During the 2006 Lebanon war between Hezbollah and Israel, as well as during the 2007-2008 Gaza conflicts between Hamas and Israel, both Hamas and Hezbollah demonstrated weapons arsenals that were larger than many other small nations.

The Strike Fighter gap is also a readiness issue.

I am very concerned about the adequacy of TRICARE networks to meet the health and mental health needs of our servicemembers and their families.

General Chiarelli, another tragic consequence of the OIF and OEF deployments is an increase in suicide.

General Chandler, what are the current mission capable rates for each of those aircraft?

the F-22 fell short of the projected availability due to low observable maintenance requirements.

General Chiarelli, in your written testimony, you state that in order to restore the Army's full operational depth by fiscal year 2012, the Reserve component, that is our National Guard and Reserve Forces, must continue a transition from a…

What steps, if any, can be taken in the near- to mid-term to mitigate the shortfall of rotary lift assets in Afghanistan?