Ken Calvert

I reserve the balance of my time. Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the majority leader of the House of Representatives. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Connecticut has…

I reserve the balance of my time. Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Bishop), the chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug…

I think everybody knows, Madam Speaker, what the conditions are that have been pretty much publicized. National defense spending must go up and the balance of the appropriations has to come down; the legacy riders must come back in, and…

I would like to remind my friends in the majority, we don't run the House, we don't run the White House, and God only knows who runs the Senate. But I do know this, that the gentleman that the majority leader referred to, the ranking…

I have a motion to recommit at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Calvert moves to recommit the bill, H.R. 6119, to the Committee on Appropriations. The SPEAKER…

I reserve the balance of my time. Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Let me just say to you that we have heard from a number of advocacy groups urging the Congress to move on taking up a full-year…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 8, the yeas and nays are ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 211, nays 219, not voting 3, as…

I reserve the balance of my time. Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).

I reserve the balance of my time. Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Cartwright), the chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies.

I am kind of a little confused. Last I looked, the Democratic Party controls the House, they control the Senate, and they control the White House. If they want to pass an omnibus bill, pass it. Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my…

I thank the gentleman for yielding me time. I want to say we are all going to miss Jerry. It was a privilege to serve with him, and Godspeed, Jerry.

The whole reason that we have the Space Force is to be disruptive, to create change as rapidly as possible.

I must address an issue that is close to my heart that speaks to the realities of risk not only in high-end warfare but also in training.

To send up the same proposal that Congress has previously opposed and expect a different outcome, I believe, is ill-advised.

I agree with General Brown's 'accelerate, change, or lose' vision.

American air dominance is not a birthright. We must evolve into a new warfighting era to maintain our edge.

I share your concern on these acquisition issues. I have been, as you know, concerned about that for a long time.

He recognized the Air Force needed to do better at bringing disruption into the system, including small business.

We need more ships, quite frankly, and your comment on the workforce constraints that you are experiencing and what our private shipyards need in order to keep pace with China.

Hope is not a planning strategy.

the administration's proposed reduction of defense spending would prevent us from meeting the goals in our National Defense Strategy.

I am cautiously optimistic that the Drought Interagency Working Group will take a serious look at water storage.

the threats from Russia and China are real. We will soon face, for the first time in our history, two nuclear-capable peer competitors.

the allocation that the administration has come up with for our defense budget is not adequate.

I hope the pressures continues on these countries in Europe to meet their obligations to NATO.