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Mike Dennis Rogers is a former U.S. Representative for Alabama's 3rd congressional district, serving from 2003 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Rogers held various influential positions in Congress, including Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. During his tenure, he focused on national security and intelligence issues, advocating for policies to strengthen the military and enhance oversight of intelligence operations.
This amendment will strip $79 billion out of the bill. That would have catastrophic effects on our training and readiness. I need to remind Members, we have been at war for two decades, we have worn out everything we have got. We have got…
This is a terrible and reckless amendment, and I urge all the Members of this body to reject it, and I yield back the balance of my time.
I know the gentleman means well, but I am not misguided, and I don't misunderstand anything. I know exactly what the unfunded requirements request list is, it is a vital piece of information for our committee to do its oversight, and I…
I urge support of the amendments en bloc, and I yield back the balance of my time.
I have some more speakers who aren't ready to speak right now, so at this time I reserve the balance of my time.
The amendment allows some of the most hardened terrorists in U.S. custody a platform to publicly broadcast their message. Letting these vicious terrorists know there is a public audience for their hate will do far more harm than good. It…
It is my understanding that the ranking member of the committee of jurisdiction is opposed. Therefore, I must be opposed. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
This is a fine piece of legislation in a stand-alone fashion. In fact, I voted for the gentleman's stand-alone bill. I think what he is trying to accomplish is admirable and should be accomplished, but not in the National Defense…
As I have made clear, I feel very strongly that this is a really strong, bipartisan bill. I urge all Members of the House to support it. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
This budget is woefully inadequate. It doesn't keep pace with China. It doesn't even keep pace with inflation.
Having said that, I look forward to hearing from the Department and the Independent Review Commission about this new set of recommendations to better address sexual assault in the military.
The President's top line for defense is forcing the Army alone to slash funding by nearly $4 billion.
The President's defense budget is woefully inadequate. It falls far short of providing our warfighters the resources they need to carry out their mission.
This budget is, basically, level funding, just a little bit of a dip, it's irresponsible in the long term.
We can't keep deferring taking action on keeping pace with China, because it's going to get us in a bad situation.
There is no guarantee the United States would win a future conflict with China.
The fact is these UFRs [unfunded requirements] are necessary and we need to fund them.
Why are you canceling the program that our best military minds on deterrence tell us that we need to deter Russia and China?
The nonpartisan--the bipartisan Commission on National Security Defense recommended a 3 to 5 percent increase in defense spending each year over inflation for the foreseeable future.
I just don't know why we would agree with anything that would reduce the force structure and induce a near-term risk with China.
I refuse to support it. We should be expanding and modernizing our naval capabilities as called for by the last administration.
While this administration dithers, China is rapidly growing and modernizing its navy.
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