I mean, let's not shoot the bystander here in terms of, you know, overreacting to this problem that was identified.

I enthusiastically support the seapower portion of the defense bill, which is a strong bipartisan boost to our security on, below, and above the seas. The Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee worked hard this year examining the…

I want to, first of all, thank Mr. Thompson of Mississippi for his interest and support in this measure, even though he hails from a part of the country which is far away from the Long Island Sound. But, again, going back to his days on…

Next to me is a map of the United States which shows the sickening increase in overdose deaths in this country due to heroin and opioid use over the last decade or so. The first map is a map from the Centers for Disease Control statistics…

I thank Mr. Pascrell for yielding time, and I thank my good friend and colleague Erik Paulsen for his great work in getting us to this point today where finally we are going to move this measure forward. It is almost 5 years to the day…

I thank Congresswoman Clark for organizing this really important discussion here this evening. The scope of the problem in terms of what is facing our Nation is pretty astonishing when you look at the statistics from the Centers for…

I am committed to making sure we get to the bottom line.

We also need to ask what more we as a government can do to force recalcitrant countries like Haiti.

Our committee is not just about oversight. It is also about reform.

the response so far just, frankly, has not been satisfactory.

I think another hearing would be most appropriate.

It is crucial that we hear what Immigration and Customs Enforcement has learned from these cases.

I want to thank the committee, both majority and minority, for waiving my appearance here today.

there are other options that we have available to us, and we need to exercise those

this just screams out for the fact that we know, the agencies in the U.S., ICE and the State Department are not getting this done

we are honored today to have Ms. Wendy Hartling from Gales Ferry, Connecticut, join us here today.

It appears that ICE could and should have taken simple additional steps that might have resulted in Jacques being repatriated and therefore never given the opportunity to murder Casey Chadwick.

the actual premium price went down by 5 percent. I am going to say that again, went down by 5 percent.

In 2010, our uninsured rate was about 9 percent. Last fall, the latest statistics that came out, it is now 3.8 percent.

Again, we still have work to do to make improvements, but there is no question that certainly when people actually step up and figure out how to make it work, as in Connecticut, both in terms of cost and access, I think we can point to…

The chart that is being set up next to me here depicts graphically one of the most sickening trends in terms of an increasing cause of death in the United States, which is heroin and opioid overdoses. On the top, the map shows data from…

So we are headed down that road. We are doing it.

But yet, we can't do more with less. We have to do less with less.

Even when we meet the 308-ship goal, key shortfalls will remain.

The current requirement of 48 was set nearly a decade ago before undersea resurgence that we see now by China and Russia.