Buy America is extremely important. Make it in American is extremely important.

As a proud member of the Blue Collar Caucus, I thank the gentlewoman for both wearing blue and bringing a message from that caucus. It is extremely important. The Make It In America agenda, which we have been talking about here for at…

The supplemental appropriations relating to the three hurricanes will be moving through Congress.

we do have a challenge out ahead, and that is to push back against all of the fake news surrounding the Jones Act.

The private American companies that employ the Jones Act have made significant investments in Puerto Rico.

I suspect there is a high level of ignorance about the damage that the Coast Guard has sustained and about the cost and the facilities.

To my colleagues in the House of Representatives, most of whom are not here right now but perhaps they are back in their office listening, and really to the American public and folks here in the Chamber, it has been a most interesting…

I thank Mr. Espaillat very much for bringing to our attention the possibilities. The U.S. military is awesome. I am very thankful that Adam Smith, the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, together with you and other…

It seems to me that it might be useful to keep that in mind.

Excuse me, but you are dancing around the fundamental issue that I have raised.

I would suggest that the companies that built that equipment not be the ones responsible for certifying that it is actually working.

I have a general concern about the way in which the military moves people from one job to another within very, very short periods of time.