Mike Rogers

I too urge adoption of the en bloc package, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I, too, urge adoption of this en bloc package, and I yield back the balance of my time.

This amendment requires the Department of Defense to establish a voluntary pilot program to provide secure gun storage or safety devices for personally owned firearms. I don't think it is the DOD's responsibility. This should be the…

The report required in this amendment is well intentioned, but the preference against incineration chooses sides on destruction technology. We want to make sure the DOD destroys PFAS material using whatever technology performs the best and…

This amendment makes unnecessary changes to section 333 security cooperation reporting requirements and places needless certification on programs within the Northern Triangle. The additional reporting requirements are overly burdensome…

This amendment would arbitrarily strip $100 billion out of this bill. That is 12 percent of total defense spending it would cut. This amendment would have catastrophic effects on training and readiness. It will endanger the safety of our…

This amendment is a misuse of funds and resources on behalf of the DOD. As my colleague from California just referenced, this bill already includes funding increases for a myriad of civilian harm programs. There is already $5 million for…

I have no further speakers, so at this time, I would just urge adoption of this en bloc package and yield back the balance of my time.

I oppose the gentleman's amendment. It allows some of the most hardened terrorists in U.S. custody a platform to publicly broadcast their message. Our military commissions process at Guantanamo Bay has already been substantially delayed…

The United States military should not be a social engineering experiment.

Integrated deterrence may sound good in White House meetings, but I can tell you that on the ground in Eastern Europe, and in the South Pacific, it just doesn't fly.

It's unacceptable that they be compelled to live by a budget that doesn't fairly recognize this.

The Biden budget proposes to cut 12,000 soldiers from the Army, an Army currently providing forward-deployed troops to our NATO allies in Eastern Europe.

We absolutely still have a requirement for Strykers and Abrams.

We would like to see them have that capability because we want--we are in a war for talent.

The budget falls far short of providing our warfighters the resources they need to carry out their mission.

It fails to keep pace with record inflation.

The President's defense budget proposal is woefully inadequate.

All of this invites a tremendous amount of risk and the risk won't be mitigated for years.

These retirements represent a huge loss of capability for the Navy and the Marine Corps.

Rather than keeping pace with the threat from China, the President's budget would let them lap us.

I'm enormously proud of what this joint force is all about.

We have got to do everything we can that's possible, without going to war with Russia, to ensure that the Ukrainian people remain free and sovereign.

We are at, literally, in my view, a pivot point in the geostrategic history of Europe, for sure, and perhaps the globe with this invasion of Ukraine.

The only consistent criticism that I've heard in a bipartisan way on the effort in Ukraine is just simply the speed at which things are moving.