I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, this is an important bill, but there is something even much more important this week in Congress. In 2012, President Obama was caught on camera giving Russia's then- President Medvedev a…

I thank the gentleman for yielding and for his leadership. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of the conference report for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020. The NDAA continues rebuilding readiness and…

We need this model to work, but not at the expense of military families.

I have also been deeply troubled by the lack of oversight of this program and our military families deserve better.

The House and Senate both passed significant bipartisan legislation in their defense bills this year and I look forward to enacting meaningful reform.

I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for his words, and I thank him for reminding us about the Pilgrim tradition, especially as we enter this week of Thanksgiving. It is interesting, in American history, we have two different strains of…

The Army has invested more than $1 billion over the past 10 years to upgrade its depot facilities.

We must also posture them to remain relevant for future demand.

I want to stress that this is a bipartisan concern. I am with the chairman 100 percent on making sure that we have plans and that we are funding those plans.

I thank the gentleman from Texas for his words, and I thank him and all the others who have spoken here tonight from all over this great country of ours for their heartfelt comments. It has been an honor and a pleasure for me to…

I thank Mr. Grothman for his words tonight, and I appreciate him being here. Listen to what President Harry Truman said during his address at the Attorney General's Conference on Law Enforcement Problems: ``The fundamental basis of this…

I thank the gentleman from Texas for sharing his heart with us tonight. Throughout American history, many of our great leaders have turned to the Bible for guidance, faith, and hope. President Abraham Lincoln once said of the Bible: ``I…

I thank the gentleman from Georgia for his words and for being here tonight. We have been on the Pacific Coast. Now we are with Georgia on the Atlantic Coast. We have been hearing from Texas, people from Texas down at our Mexican border…

The depots within our military services are essential for maintaining the complex ships, aircraft, and land systems that form the building blocks of our joint force.

I thank Representative Arrington for his heartfelt comments and for being here tonight and sharing with us. One reason many people respect the Bible is that so many prophecies for telling future events have come true exactly as foretold…

As the costs and complexities of major defense systems continue to evolve, we have to build capacity to support these systems.

I thank the gentlewoman for her words of wisdom, her personal experience, and for being here tonight. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Babin).

I thank the gentleman from Kansas, in the Nation's heartland, for sharing his thoughts with us tonight. I am going to share my own story. When I was a freshman at the University of Kansas--also there in America's heartland--in the 1970s…

It is a great honor for me to come to the House floor tonight to commemorate National Bible Week. This is an opportunity to celebrate the tremendous influence of the Bible on the freedoms we enjoy today in America. We are truly blessed to…

I thank the gentleman. Many of the early American settlers, we reference them many times. They came to the New World with the express purpose of following the Bible according to the convictions of their own consciences. One of the first…

I thank the gentlewoman from Missouri for her passionate and powerful words. Our last speaker now before we conclude our hour is from the great State of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gohmert).

I strongly urge Congress to pass a defense appropriation and authorization bill now so what we can move forward with the many important programs needed to ensure our readiness and deter our adversaries.

At $406 billion for acquisition and more than $1 trillion estimated for sustainment, we cannot afford any further mismanagement of this program.

The F-35 program is an example of a program that seems to be like it was designed so that it is too big to fail.

I yield to the gentlewoman from Colorado. Ms. DeGETTE. I would just note--and the gentleman and I have actually discussed this--as we have been preparing the maps for my bill, which we are going to be seeing in the Natural Resources…