I am honored to stand here beside my women colleagues in support of this very important motion. As they have shared, we have an essential duty to protect the rights of our servicemembers, their reproductive rights. We protect the decisions…

the reality is, we are making progress.

We are going to pressure you on those things, the TIFIA for airports, yes.

There is a little matter out there about Buy America, a 1983 waiver that was granted by the then Transportation Department, that is still in place.

you are doing one hell of a job.

you provided us with key information that we needed, and now you are into the implementation stage.

Kill it. Get it done.

Can you push the money out, or is that money now being allocated for the disaster recovery?

You have got a tough job, Ms. Criswell. You really, really do.

We will never be able to deal with disasters unless we continue to press for mitigation.

I want to make sure that FEMA is providing communities at-risk from wildfires with every tool possible to avoid or mitigate the loss of life, property, and environmental impacts from wildfire and other natural disasters.

I very, very much appreciate the task that you are doing and the extraordinary importance of it.

I am actually quite amazed that we are allowing a political ideology to get in the way of reality and facts. The fact of the matter is that the U.S. military, more than a decade ago, noticed that the climate was changing and they needed to…

That was a most interesting argument presented by our colleague. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Rogers), the chairman of the Armed Services Committee.

We are in the midst of a major overhaul of our nuclear weapons system. It is a vast project and extraordinarily expensive, and in that process of reviewing and modifying our nuclear weapons system, this particular bomb becomes one of the…

May I inquire as to how much time is remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California has 3 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Pennsylvania has 30 seconds remaining.

I thank Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Smith for their leadership on the committee and the work that has been done. Also, a special shout-out to Chairman Waltz, with whom I have the pleasure of working on the Readiness Subcommittee…

You cannot control your destiny.

It appears as though when we deal with the national emergencies, we are usually dealing with an issue that is red hot at the time.

I think part of the reason the reporting hasn't happened is that Congress hasn't acted.

Mr. Perry, thank you. Thank you for holding the hearing, necessary, and we need to continue this.

If we could spend the next 18 months looking at this issue and coming with a proposal that is not based upon the most recent hot button emergency.

There appears to be but one issue, as I can try to understand it, and that is the use of the security issue makes it difficult for the participant, whistleblower, to find satisfaction.

I find it most interesting during our break to go and vote. The majority, including some Democrats, voted to express support for law enforcement officers and condemning efforts to defund and dismantle local law enforcement agencies.

There appears to be a glitch. It would seem to me that we would be useful to use our time to delve into this glitch.