Joe Courtney

Just really, one quick question to Admiral Conn.

I have no further speakers for the amendment. Mr. Chairman, I urge a ``yes'' vote, and I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Courtney). The…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Connecticut will be postponed.

Again, I want to thank Mr. Visclosky and Ms. Granger for the courtesy and, again, having parity in terms of the time. I realize this is an extraordinary situation. They have a lot of folks who want to take the opposite position, but this…

May I inquire how much time is remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Connecticut has 45 seconds remaining.

We have still not seen the true effect yet of the SALT provision in the Trump bill which is going to really again start landing hard on middle class families in 2019 and years beyond.

We have never in the history of the United States had this massive de-investment in K through 12.

This shoe is going to start dropping with the next tax filing in 2018.

There was a dozen House Republicans who voted no.

The timing given the fact that it's six months since passage of the Trump tax cuts is appropriate to begin the process of trying to understand better the impact.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chair, I thank Dave Sienicki, Bruce Johnson, Phil MacNaughton, and Megan Handal. None of this is possible without the countless hours they put in and the invaluable expertise they provide us. Mr…

This is like having a member of Congress saying that they willfully refuse to accept a decision by the ethics office.

We in Congress want to help you by maximizing tools to boost shipbuilding.

Well, it looks like you guys made a little news already today by moving the needle from 2050s to 2030s.

The good news is, is that the Navy itself has made clear in the new shipbuilding plan that there is room to grow our investments in ships and submarines above and beyond the plan laid out in the 2019 budget.

The track record of U.S. DOL in terms of enforcing pension problems... is very, very spotty.

These plans have been plagued by insolvencies.

The letter that was submitted from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners that made a forceful argument for retaining regaining state authority over the operation of MEWAs and these association health plans was actually a very…

Thank God we did it, because when we talk about, again, the force level and, you know, how we are still inevitably going to go into a dip, if we had not done that 10 years ago, frankly, we would be in an even worse place today.

I know, you know, we sort of had a--there was a bit of a gap, you know, back in the late 1990s, early 2000, particularly in terms of the SSBN program where there was absolutely no design work happening at all.

This subcommittee, again, passed the incremental authority, which, you know, at least sent a signal for the negotiators when Block IV was being done to go bigger than what the Obama budget had come over for only nine subs there.

Thank you to the witnesses and to Admiral Jabaley and Mr. Geurts for joining us on Saturday for a very cold commissioning of the USS Colorado.

Last year's NDAA [National Defense Authorization Act] we included some language that allowed wounded Ukrainian soldiers to be treated in U.S. medical facilities in accordance with DOD [Department of Defense] rules.

Thank you, General, for your testimony yesterday and today.

We, as part of acquisition reform, should be using available technology and open new opportunities for the Air Force.