At a minimum, we shouldn't go backward and return to the failed Republican policies that mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic.

I would actually ask that the letter date-stamped March 25 from the Acting Secretary transferring a billion dollars out of the Army's account to the Department of Homeland Security be entered for the record.

Our duty is to protect the currency in the full faith and credit of our country.

This bill heeds that call by directing the State Department to inventory any and all administrative and statutory barriers to AUKUS implementation and report that back to Congress within 60 days. This is exactly what Congress needs to do…

Again, the latest statistics in terms of what the Biden reforms have accomplished, is that 450,000 borrowers have had their loans properly discharged according to law, and it has resulted in savings of 31 billion dollars.

As the Australian Prime Minister very well described a week ago last Monday: A new chapter in the relationship between Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom is about to begin; a friendship built on our shared values, our…

What the Biden administration did was allow, again our service members who are deployed and out of country to account those months of deployment toward their discharge.

I think clearly we in the Congress had our eyes wide open when these large amounts of funding were authorized and appropriated, that we wanted oversight at every step of the way.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for scheduling this important hearing right at the outset of this Congress, which I think sends a strong message that--as an article that I wrote for The Hill, the title was 'It's the Defense Industrial Base…

this funding is not just going to southeastern Connecticut. This is going all across the country

One area where American education that I believe is not in crisis, in fact, it is highly valued is anything particularly in the moment we're in, in terms of our economy, is career and technical education funding.

if we're going to get serious about really expanding the workforce of the industrial base it has to be an all-of-government endeavor

The President talked about this last night, which is, so if you have a master welder teaching kids how to just do almost intro welding, the good news is, is that when these kids graduate, even at high school age, they are probably starting…

The career and technical education programs that are there are completely packed with waiting lists.

I am very supportive of the Biden administration's efforts to increase Pell Grants, as well as efforts to support innovation and excellence.

I congratulate you, Chairwoman Foxx, along with Representatives Stefanik, Banks, Hinson, and Thompson, for your vision in bringing forward this legislation.

The good news is that it is gone from about 7,000 to about 13,000 workers.

On January 13, 2023, the Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen, announced that the United States had hit its debt ceiling, which is a legal authorization that Congress has done on a recurring basis since the early 1900s that allows our…

This is not the first time the executive branch has asked for additional authority from Congress. President Trump's Commission on Opioids issued a report in 2017 which asked for exactly the same reforms. DOL must be given the real…

For years, leaders in mental health and addiction have been sounding the alarm that despite the best intentions, our Nation's mental health parity laws are not meeting the needs and expectations of patients. Existing mental health parity…

A couple days ago, Medicare beneficiaries all across America received very welcome news. For 2023, Medicare announced that the part B premiums, which are deducted from seniors' Social Security checks, will actually be reduced by $6 a…

The Navy's refusal is a change in 40 years of contract policy, which myself and others have been warning is going to create a barrier for work to be performed by private contractors.

I appreciate that. And, you know, again, the door is always wide open in terms of continuing this effort.

There are still significant numbers of attack submarines with over 3 months of maintenance delays, with some vessels still experiencing years of delays.

That is why I have introduced H.R. 1861, the bipartisan Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, which builds off of USDA's 2018 guidance and allows schools who participate in the school lunch program to serve whole milk as an option.