No matter how tough our operating environment or how strained our budget, we shouldn't be and cannot be colliding with other ships and running aground.

To what extent do you think such concerns are founded?

And then we have this massive teacher shortage in this country; why people don't want to become teachers.

I actually asked the House Historian to pull up a picture of Congressman Fitzgerald.

I think getting this done early in the 115th Congress will hopefully allow us the opportunity to get some bandwidth in the Senate's floor schedule to finally get this to the President's desk, and, again, forever protect an asset for…

I thank Mr. Payne for his leadership on the Homeland Security Committee and also for his hard work on this legislation, which, again, has been closely watched back home in Connecticut and on the other side of Long Island Sound, as Mr…

Last February, President Trump had CEOs from America's largest manufacturers to come and talk about progrowth tax policies. Instead of talking about taxes, what they really talked about is the real need out there, which is to close the…

There is a lot of confusion out there about just the mixed messages and signals that are coming out of the Department as States are working hard to try and, again, achieve the goals of this legislation.

I want to join the ranking member in saying how I think a lot of us feel frustration about the fact that the Secretary of Education has not yet appeared before this committee.

The fact is now we have a black hole in the Federal law in terms of, you know, how ESSA is structured and designed.

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 Alabama will be postponed. Amendment No. 18 Offered by Mr. Hunter The Acting CHAIR. It is…

I thank Mr. Smith for yielding and compliments to him and Chairman Thornberry for the outstanding work, again, that the two of them have collaborated on to keep this really massive undertaking on schedule. It is really a very truncated…

I could not agree more, Mr. Barton, that safety is a huge, huge issue.

What is the value of saving one young people in changing not only their life, but the life of everybody they come in contact with.

I have been a very staunch supporter of the Job Corps since I've been in the Congress the 8-1/2 years I've been here.

It is a societal problem. Drug abuse.

If not Job Corps, what, what do they end up doing because it's -- I've looked at like this, it is either pay me now or pay me later.

I appreciate you and the ranking member putting the spotlight on WIOA.

It is unthinkable to consider cutting critical programs without giving them a chance to become established and successful in our communities.

I'm hopeful that Congress will reject the President's proposed cuts to job training programs and make the right investments in our nation's workforce development system.

Together, we must ensure that WIOA fulfills its goals of improving the quality of job training programs and aligning training to real-world labor market needs.

I worked on the Hill for 11 years, and all that time, I never saw a bill as extreme and provocative and anti-union, anti-worker as the Employee Rights Act.

If you're a worker trying to get a union, these bills make you wait. If you're an employer trying to destroy a union, these bills give you the fast track.

These bills work hard to delay union certification elections, to give employers more time to campaign while creating a new decertification process that can be triggered by the employer.

The tankers, bombers, and airlift programs that fall under the projection forces side of our panel's oversight serve as the backbone of our Nation's ability to bring and sustain the power that preserves our Nation's interests around the…