Jackie Speier

The string of problems that led to the 2014 Nuclear Enterprise Review are a stunning example...

The President has derided the New START Treaty as 'one-sided' and a 'bad deal.'

This morning, the President is being lauded for a speech that stayed on message and was optimistic. Those accolades would be deserved if his actions bore any resemblance to his words. But, instead, we were subjected to a barrage of third…

I really want us to think about whether or not we should create a mechanism within these boards that will allow individuals to come back subsequently, after a period of years, make the case for their good behavior and potentially have…

If you had the Members of Congress, who, when they left office under whatever circumstances, had a similar ranking of honorable, general, or less-than-honorable, a lot of Members would leave with less-than-honorable discharges because of…

Let's just look at military sexual trauma.

I would like to see it standardized because I think for our military service members, they should all be treated the same.

Fifty percent grants in the Army and 11 percent grants in the Navy.

It would seem to me that there would be great benefit for standard policies to be put in place that would, you know, guide your decision making.

So not that you can extract anything from conversations, and that is why we would like to look at the cases themselves.

I thank the ranking member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, a great leader in our Congress, and someone who I admire greatly. The only thing clever about this bill is the title. Everything else about this bill is truly…

We are in a constitutional crisis. Make no mistake about it. Yes, the National Security Adviser Michael Flynn resigned. Yes, he should have resigned, but he is just the tip of the iceberg. A glacier of Russian interference is plaguing our…

On Sunday, I and many Americans watched in horror as our President continued to wax poetic on TV about the bromance with President Vladimir Putin. When the host noted ``But he's a killer,'' our President came back with: ``There are a lot…

I thank the gentlewoman for her leadership. Madam Speaker, President Trump once said his favorite book is the Bible. I think he is writing a new book for the Bible called the ``Apocalypse of Women.'' It is a reverse Genesis. In the…

The Republicans' plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act should be entitled repeal and collapse, because it will generate, in this country, a financial and healthcare meltdown for tens of millions of people. In fact, if we repeal the ACA…

How does GAO rank-order the capabilities and design characteristics of each of the ships that the Navy considered during its study to determine how to develop the frigate platform, and how does GAO assess the capabilities of the ship that…

I would like again, if you don't have that figure off the top of your head, to provide it to me and the committee how much that cost to repair.

I want all repairs, and you can give it to us by date so we can look at the date the ship was commissioned and the date of the repairs.

I want to know--and I would like for you to send it to the committee and also to my personal office--how much money we have spent on repairs to the LCS fleet to date.

The disadvantages in our view, is that, as I mentioned in my opening remarks, the program can be considered, quote-unquote, 'locked in,' so that any attempt to adjust the procurement pace, if Congress has concerns about the program, they…

Let's talk more about block buys, because my understanding is that, Secretary Stackley, you have already put out an RFP [request for proposal] that presupposes a block buy, even though you don't have authorization yet from Congress.

So if an LCS is hit by a torpedo, what is survivability, that the sailors can get overboard or that they can exit the area?

I think that we are talking around some realities. The reality is the Coast Guard has figured out a way to do it appropriately.

To protect the United States interests and to do what is best for our service men and women, we need a ship that is capable of fulfilling its intended mission.

Look at how much the program has changed from the Navy's early pie-in-the-sky promises.