John Garamendi

The House decided to spend $5 billion on a goddamn wall that won't do a thing to protect America.

The development of a National Maritime Strategy, while four years overdue, remains imperative.

As such, we are left rudderless and drifting without a clear course of action to steer by.

We need that report. And I am terribly impatient.

I would suggest that the committee, beginning the next year, subpoena the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Bottom line, we are going to make these icebreakers--excuse me, Polar Security Cutters--happen.

The defense of the Arctic cannot take place without a PSC.

He will live in the future, either a very good future that we and our colleagues here build for him, or one that is not. To Faith and Eric Bardet, we love you. Thank you for this beautiful gift. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my…

I thank Mr. Tonko very much for joining us. This issue is about those of us who are here today, but it is, far more importantly, about those who will be in the future. I want to dedicate this hour to a very special person, our new…

Exactly. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Tonko mentioned asthma. We Democrats campaigned on a better deal for the people, which I just happened to put up here: A better deal for the people. We talked about healthcare. Asthma is a preexisting condition…

I thank the gentleman so very much for his very forceful words and for the fact that he brought to the table not alternate facts, but real facts laid out by the scientists who put this together. We have a challenge, and I know, with the…

I thank Mrs. Roby, Mr. Harper, and Ms. Sewell for bringing to our attention one of the important organizations that develops leadership here in the United States, and, obviously, from the two of you, Mrs. Roby and Ms. Sewell, who are…

I wanted to move to the subject of climate change, however, my colleague, Terri Sewell, has reminded me that a very important organization needs a few moments, so I yield to the gentlewoman from Alabama (Ms. Sewell), to speak about the…

The work of this committee in pushing back on the $300 million rescission in the food aid programs is much appreciated.

I draw that to the attention of this committee, the interrelationship between the work of this committee and the Armed Services Committee.

Well, let me wrap this up very, very quickly in the next 60 seconds. A strategic national asset, natural gas, coupled with another strategic natural national asset, our mariners, our shipyards, our steel industry, our manufacturers of…

I thank the gentlewoman so very much. 124 Labor Days for the working men and women of America. We should keep that in mind, and certainly I know the gentlewoman will and I, and I am sure my colleagues, at least on the Democratic side of…

The high-speed rail is not an isolated project, he said. It fits into the highway, it fits into the airports, it fits into the ports, and all of that infrastructure.

My time is over. My final 15 seconds, which is not really available but if the chairman doesn't shut me up, is that the Congress this year will not complete a massive infrastructure program, but it is in the works that all of us are…

Which is precisely what the U.S. Congress did in the National Defense Authorization Act. It committed itself to a 330-ship Navy, to $1 trillion for the repurposing and re-upbuilding of our nuclear deterrent. Money is not there, the…

Yes, we should be concerned about a secure funding source, but it looks to me like, Mr. Kelly, you have secured about 80 percent of the funding necessary to complete what you now call step 1 of phase 1.

The fundamental problem is we don't have a funding source going forward, and if we had that, things would be better but not necessarily solved.

I am prepared to close. I will take my few seconds that remain then and simply say this is a good piece of legislation. I want to thank the chair of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee for his work on this, and for…

What in the hell are we doing here, that we are so incorrect in our prioritization of issues?

I find it very difficult to believe that the Appropriations Committee will actually do that. No, I believe they will do that: $1 billion--or more, actually--out of the Coast Guard budget for a big, beautiful wall.