Ken Calvert

I struggle to think of another time in American history that we have asked the Guard to do the range of missions and at the tempo in which they have been operating over the past year.

the number that General Mattis came up with in order to meet the National Defense Strategy... should be at least a 3 percent-plus number net of inflation.

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

We need your best advice as to what the mix of U.S. military assets are required to deter a hostile and aggressive Iran.

Seven years after Russia first invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea, Moscow is visibly massing military forces along the common border.

the Biden administration has been dragging their feet.

I continue to be concerned by the efforts of some in this body to significantly cut the Department of Defense budget.

the Naval Academy and other bases also, which is also a problem, is a lot of these bases were built on fill and certainly the Naval Academy a lot of it is on fill.

the chaos on our southern border reminds us of the perils of taking our eye off the ball and allowing our own hemisphere to become a victim of strategic neglect here in Washington.

The numbers of people in the Department of Defense civilian workforce has never been higher relative to those in uniform.

Russia never stopped in designing and building nuclear weapons and weren't honest about what they are up to.

We are always going to have to achieve a certain amount of risk. We are going to have to balance the needs of our defense strategy against the acceptable risk that we need to take.

Adversaries like China and Russia continue to challenge the rules-based order that America and our allies have created over the past century.

The need to climate-proof key military installations can be readily handled by seawalls, improved infrastructure reliance, and, as the worst case, relocation of bases to less vulnerable locations.

We need to rework that arsenal. We have capped our number of nuclear weapons.

I think there are significant savings to be achieved.

I was unfortunately prevented from traveling and unable to make votes on December 10, 2020. Had I been present, I would have voted in favor of S. 906 and H.R. 5040. Personal Explanation

Serving in the United States military is an honor, and we should be thanking the thousands of young people who choose to join the military to defend this great Nation. The assertion that joining the military is a bad thing for low-income…

I have no additional speakers, I urge a ``yes'' vote, and I yield back the balance of my time.

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3 of House Resolution 965, the yeas and nays are ordered. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further proceedings on this question are postponed. Amendment No…

I have no further speakers. I support the en bloc amendment, and I urge a ``yes'' vote. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

And I rise in opposition to the Democratic en bloc amendment. Mr. Speaker, while there may certainly be valid adjustments reflecting important priorities, there are also political statements that have no place in the Defense appropriations…

I have no objection to this en bloc amendment. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Balderson).

I mean, there is going to be a future President at some point, maybe President Sanders, who may want to create a national emergency and move money into Health and Human Services.

I think what they are trying to do is take money out of one pocket and put it in the other pocket.