If I might, I would like to yield to the gentlewoman for a little colloquy. Your experience before you came here, you were a physician?

Recklessly firing personnel without a strategic plan... is extraordinarily irresponsible and dangerous to U.S. national security.

Serious damage has been done. We urge you to immediately reassess these decisions, restore necessary expertise to the NNSA, and ensure that NNSA staffing decisions prioritize safety and security.

These terminations jeopardize the security of the U.S. nuclear stockpile, weaken our ability to detect and prevent threats to those weapons, and undermine our nonproliferation commitments.

There is a right way to reduce the size and scope of our nuclear arsenal—one that enhances global security, properly safeguards our weapons, and reduces nuclear risks.

So we now know what a $280 million- investment in a Presidential campaign will give you: the opportunity to totally destroy one of America's most important soft power, and that is the United States Agency for International Development. Mr…

I thank Mr. Casten for his comments. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Wasserman Schultz).

I am a stand-in. This is actually Marcy Kaptur's Special Order hour. She is tied up in a hearing, so I will try to do my best to lay it out. She was going to speak for 7 minutes on the issues of the Trump administration's dismantling of…

Critical important issues have been raised in the last 20 minutes or so about the issues of conflicts of interest, of corruption, and of policy mistakes that the current administration has put in motion over the last 15, 16 days. I will…

I thank the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Wasserman Schultz) for her comments. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Landsman).

We must resist. We must be in the streets.

There is a great tragedy occurring in California as we speak. Members of the California delegation have spoken on the floor about the extraordinary damage, loss of life, and lives that have been disrupted. I was shocked to watch on…

I thank Congressman McGovern for putting this together and for the opportunity to speak on this crucial topic. Since their creation, nuclear weapons have shocked the world with their destructive potential and left us grappling with how to…

Challenge us--don't dance, come very clear--if we do not have the money for the 8 to 10 icebreakers now or next budget year, we will fail to achieve the necessary presence in the Arctic.

the only way we are going to do it is to rethink how we are going to get those icebreakers.

the fact of the matter is, we will not have a presence in the Arctic.

we have continually underfunded the Coast Guard icebreaker program--continually.

The bottom line here, I am going to ask you guys, is there a national security threat in the Arctic as a result of the inability of the United States to have a presence in the Arctic?

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 8, after line 8, insert the following (and redesignate subsequent paragraphs accordingly): (18)…

Project 2025 is a roadmap that the Republican Administration may use should Trump win the election.

What would a loyalty test mean for the military? It wouldn't be their ability to conduct the necessary programs for our national defense, but rather their loyalty to the President and the President's agenda.

I am all for EVs, but let the technology catch up, and don't try to ban internal combustion engines at the rate that you are doing.

Will you ensure that the FAA fully enforces these stronger 'Buy America' requirements for rolling stock?

The policy of the President was to make it in America, buy America.

I will point out that the petroleum industry has been subsidized for the better part of 120 years, and continues to this day to have very, very significant subsidies.