Jackie Speier

We must be acutely aware that production of these components overseas is a critical vulnerability for the United States.

We have the best weapons in the world, but our acquisition pipeline often gets us those weapons late and over budget.

The revelation that in Syria, after all the money we spent, $500 million, we have four or five individuals who have been trained and equipped, is more than an embarrassment.

We can't want it more than they want it.

I am sick to my stomach this morning because we have just witnessed the 45th school shooting this year. There have been more than 294 mass shootings this year, and we have only had 272 days this year. I am not going to stand for another…

Planned Parenthood provides 865,000 pap smears and breast exams a year. That is more than the entire population of States like Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota. I want to introduce you, Members on the other side of the aisle, to Colleen…

There is an old saying that says you can catch a lot more bees with honey than with vinegar. It turns out that that is true in business, too. The confectioners industry employs a whopping 55,000 busy worker bees in the United States--that…

Like slumber parties and sleepovers, a pillow fight doesn't sound like the type of activity that would leave 30 of our Nation's most promising future military leaders injured or call into question the management practices of the Army's top…

I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, coming out of committee, H.R. 6 was a bipartisan huge leap forward in our efforts to accelerate the development of lifesaving cures through medical research. Yet somehow, between the…

``Ruff.'' That is what my dog Buddy says when he wants to go out for a walk, and that is what dogs throughout the bay area have been accustomed to doing in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area for decades. I, like them, believe that…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: limitation on use of funds Sec. __. None of the funds…

Please provide the committee with a copy of the RAND report 'Identifying Key Workplaces Stressors Affecting the Twentieth Air Force.'

As a follow-up to my question during the hearing, please provide our committee with information regarding recent or on-going court-martial cases.

The extent that this kind of conduct is--was going on by missileers is very troubling I think to all of us.

Evidently, there are some court-martials underway right now that I am curious what the results have been.

My understanding is that there used to be an annual competition between the Navy and Air Force but that has been discontinued.

But there has been a huge morale problem.

So, there is a huge morale problem, correct?

That doesn't respond to Congress not being told about it until they read about it in the paper.

Thank you, Madam Chair. And thank you to all of the witnesses here today.

Alzheimer's disease is a threat to our country--not a direct threat like ISIS or al Qaeda, but it is an insidious, persistent threat to the minds and bodies of our family members and to the fiscal health of our country. The Alzheimer's…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 9, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $5,000,000)''. Page 36, line 1, after the dollar amount…

I want to thank the chairman and the ranking member for their accepting amendments to address military sexual assault, increase oversight, transgender rights, whistleblower protection, and equal access to contraception for military women…

Boko Haram went on to pose an even greater menace, not only to Nigeria and its people, but to their neighbors in West Africa as well as to international security writ large.

Last week before the Transportation and Infrastructure's committee on pipeline safety, I called the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, known as PHMSA, ``a toothless tiger that has overdosed on quaaludes and is passed…