I want to thank our members for raising a whole series of really critical issues.

One of the things that occasionally happens here on the floor of the House late at night, when most everybody is doing something else, is an opportunity to hear what our Republican colleagues want to talk about, and I must commend them. I…

On April 30, the United States lost an incredible leader, a Member of Congress, one of the first women to serve on the New York Stock Exchange, and a good friend to many of us from California, Ellen Tauscher. She served here for more than…

We obviously share many of the same concerns.

the Constitution was written in such a way as to say that only Congress can appropriate money.

Thank you for joining us, and thank you for making this an issue in the last NDAA.

As I promised in our previous hearings, we are going to keep coming back to this. I am pleased that you are making progress on all of the issues.

I think the use of the word 'we need' is exactly what is in contention here.

We need to attend to that immediately. The long-term threat, missile defense and so forth, are also out there.

I think the use of the word ``we need'' is exactly what is in contention here.

So we all mourn her loss.

Thank you for making this an issue in the last NDAA.