On reservations, American Indian and Alaska Native women experience murder rates 10 times the national average.

A 2016 National Institute of Justice report noted that 1.5 million American Indian and Alaska Native women experience violence in their lifetime.

A lack of comprehensive data to quantify the number of missing and murdered women in Indian Country is just one factor contributing to this crisis.

Today, we will be confronting a deeply troubling and disturbing situation affecting Indian Country nationwide: the hidden crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women.

A number of congressional colleagues, particularly those not on this committee, are often surprised to hear that we have no permanently based troops in Latvia, Lithuania, or Estonia, despite them being NATO allies.

Please identify which specific EDI MILCON projects, designed to increase readiness and lethality, previously identified by DOD as critically needed to deter Russian aggression, and funded by Congress, are less important than a wall in…

In his announcement that he would declare a national emergency at the southern border to build a wall, President Trump said, quote: 'We have certain funds being used at the discretion of generals'.

transgender people have zero impediments to service. They should be treated like any other soldier, sailor, airman, or Marine

Mr. Speaker, let's be clear. Donald Trump's Presidency is the real national emergency. President Trump fired the FBI director to protect his national security adviser. He tried to rip healthcare from millions of Americans and destroy…

We have a lot of ground to cover, and I look forward to working with my friend and fellow Marine, Ranking Member Cook (Oorah!), and the rest of my colleagues, on addressing these and other pressing issues.

As the only Committee with exclusive jurisdiction over these issues in the House of Representatives, we have a great responsibility.