I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. ___. None of the funds made…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

I get a kick when I hear Democrats say that the so-called bipartisan bill out of the Senate would have solved this problem. Do you know what that bill did? It granted amnesty. Do you know what it did? It set a floor of 2,500 illegal aliens…

The Senate bill that my colleagues love so much didn't ever make it over here. It didn't make cloture twice in the Senate. My colleagues can continue to yell and scream, but we passed H.R. 2, which is laying over there in Chuck Schumer's…

We hear about Ukraine and NATO. We haven't even discussed China and other areas around the world that are concerns. What is our number one threat? For 20 years, we have been told it is our national debt by bipartisan leaders of the…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. During his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Special Counsel Hur stated that ``the evidence and the President himself put his memory squarely at issue.'' In his report, Special Counsel Hur…

If you want to strengthen NATO and you want to stop free riding, maybe you use leverage. Maybe you use leverage. If you want to strengthen our country, maybe use leverage to get your partners who are supposed to be your partners to start…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of subtitle A of title XVII, insert the following new section: SEC. ___. EXCLUSIONS AND…

In 2023, Germany stepped back from its commitment to meeting NATO's target of spending 2 percent, going back on its 2022 commitment to invest more than 2 percent of their GDP to defense year after year. In 2024, that number is expected to…

The issue that I bring forward is a longstanding issue. A 2004 review by GAO discusses issues at the Barry M. Goldwater Range at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona, where officials reported that nearly 10 percent of the F-16 training exercises…

Thank you for holding this hearing.

As I have done for each of the past 5 years--this is the sixth year in a row--I rise to speak in support of my amendment, which would prohibit funds for any project or activity related to NATO until the Secretary of Defense certifies to…

When you say zero evidence, I guess the GAO report gets discounted. I guess the evidence from the people who run the range gets discounted. I guess hearing from the contractors who work there and have to reschedule repeatedly because of…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Add at the end of subtitle D of title XII the following: SEC. 1236. LIMITATION OF AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Arizona will be postponed. Announcement by the Acting Chair The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to…

We have nothing. In my opinion, we have nothing to go out there and campaign on. It's embarrassing.

I thank the gentleman for doing this. Mr. Speaker, I am going to try to dovetail with what Mr. Good has talked about, and that is the weaponization of the Federal Government against American citizens for political purposes. It is bad…

I appreciate both of the chairmen for their comments. I want to add just a couple things. We are a constitutional republic. We are not a democracy. A constitutional republic actually elects representatives to make decisions and represent…

I thank the gentleman for yielding time to me. I do find it interesting that the arguments are consistently wrong from my colleagues across the aisle. First of all, now they are telling us: Oh, it is just money. They need more money. Yet…

I thank the gentleman from Florida for yielding to me. Before I get into the nub, I will just respond to a couple things. The baseline, the reason that you come down 16 percent and still have rabid crime is because you were so high the…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I thank Ms. Mace for bringing this bill.

We need to do everything that we can for the best military that we have, and that means supporting them in whatever capacity we can.

I support this commonsense bill, introduced by Chairwoman Foxx.

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 206, nays 202, not voting 22, as follows: [Roll No…

Of course, every single Democrat voted against the great border security bill, H.R. 2. That is how serious they are not. Every person is counted under this bill. Why can't we ask them what their citizenship is? I yield 2 minutes to the…