I have got a couple of things I want to do today, and I would like to start with a very special celebration that occurs every spring, and this is the Sikh community's annual historic, cultural, and religious celebration of Vaisakhi. It is…

Mr. Garamendi. Secretary Schriver. Well, I think our engagement is very important.

There are a couple of other things that I do want to speak to today. Today, the House Armed Services Committee had before it the Acting Secretary of Defense as well as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Issues were raised during…

I don't think we, as the United States, have paid enough attention to our backyard and the Western Hemisphere.

I think it is interesting that Vietnam asked or allowed us, asked or allowed, whichever way we want to put it, us to park the Carl Vinson right there.

I just draw my colleagues' attention to the whole of government and the fact that in the President's budget most of the whole of government, with the exception of the military, is significantly reduced.

The United States Constitution is extraordinarily clear about who has the power of appropriation. It is not the President.

one of the most significant threats facing our national security is climate change.

we will use it. Enormous potential here and enormous need.

the requirement will be that it be built to maximum resiliency given the threats that exist there.

We should, in my view, require that that project be resilient to the risks at that particular location.

Is the U.S. military ready for climate change? Recent events indicate considerable doubt.