John Garamendi: “Good morning. We will now call the Readiness Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee to order.”

$1.5 trillion, or $1,500,000,000,000. That is the egregious and dangerously irresponsible amount of money the Trump Administration has requested for military spending.

Minimum-wage workers in California must work an average of 88 hours per week just to afford a modest one-bedroom rental at fair market rates. That is unacceptable.

I stand with maritime labor and our U.S. maritime industry in honoring the Jones Act, today and everyday as we fight to protect this transformative law.

There is no reasonable justification for keeping the mission and number of interceptors for Golden Dome secret.