There must be stronger requirements to address the noise, environment, health, and safety issues impacting those underneath flight paths.

In this subcommittee, we have a responsibility to examine critical issues of U.S. foreign policy and national security.

They need more aircraft. They need more advanced aircrafts. That's why we've been pressing the administration on a bipartisan basis to help them advance their air force, to give them what they need to fight and win.

This is not over. This is not a history lesson. This is not a exercise in reviewing historical facts about our country. This is going on.

We certainly weren't ready and nobody in a million years ever thought we would be in that position.

Today I rise as a father, a combat veteran, a gun owner, and the Representative of a community devastated by gun violence. My constituents are family and friends of those who were killed at Columbine, at the Aurora Theater, at STEM School…

We keep on doing this, over and over again. I mean, it`s avoidable. We can change this. We know that we can change this.

The trauma of gunfire, the trauma of events like that will be with you for the rest of your life.

They know that the type of weapon matters. They know that the tool that these (INAUDIBLE) are using matters a lot, ok.

But we know they are wrong.

The answer to this problem is there are more guns. There`s just no reality in there, there`s no policy, no evidence that supports that at all.

There are common sense policies we can pass that will change things.

We know that when we passed the assault weapons ban, that was in the books for a decade, that the use of those firearms went down 30 percent.

This is the America that we built and it`s not ok.

We have created this societal trauma for our young children.

That has been one of the greatest things that has happened to our small business community in upstate New York.

We need a federal rulemaking process that actively incorporates the needs of small businesses and not just the entrenched interests.

Just last week, I visited the Aurora South Metro Small Business Development Center which provides training and counseling to hundreds of small businesses in Colorado's 6th Congressional District.

Offering work-based learning opportunities is a great way to attract quality candidates who may not be able to attend traditional education models and provide skills-based knowledge necessary to fill critical jobs.

The Small Business Workforce Pipeline Act aims to empower Small Business Development Centers, like Aurora's South Metro SBDC in my district, to help small businesses establish and improve their apprenticeship programs.

As a former Army Ranger, I rise today in support of S. 1872, a bill to award United States Army Rangers veterans of World War II a Congressional Gold Medal. In World War II, the U.S. Army formed six all-volunteer Ranger battalions and one…

I want to thank Representatives Fitzgerald, Houlahan, and Garbarino for their partnership on this bill, and I urge my colleagues to support H.R. 7622.

Can you just very briefly, Mr. Secretary, talk about how should our support evolve as this goes from a short term fight that`s providing things that are needed and can be used now on the battlefield to transition to a longer term fight…

Yeah, I think the United States is going to do it. I want to make something clear, the Biden administration has done a remarkable job providing a vast array of defensive weapons and material and equipment to the Ukrainians in a very short…

So, our support has to adopt and evolve with it. That`s with this letter is about. It`s not a critical letter, not saying they haven`t done enough. We`re saying that the next phase of this war will require an evolution, a change in both…