The Navy has leveraged the private shipyards to reduce pressure on the maintenance industrial base and has achieved success in this effort.

There are 13 Virginia-class submarines in the queue that, again, are in various stages of production.

Following the Congressional Budget Office's report on the Navy's 30-year shipbuilding plan, there was reporting that AUKUS would cause a 10-year dip in attack submarine inventory.

If there is any perception that AUKUS is something that starts after passage of those legislative proposals, I want to address that right away.

I think that is coming through with the industrial base funding over the last few years or so.

There is a case for urgency because we are deeply involved in execution today, and we need these authorities to be able to move forward.

As a teenager, I'm still trying to find my way into this world, and I want to know as many other viewpoints as possible.

Hiding away things that make us uncomfortable doesn't make them go away, even if we don't talk about it.

Today, I rise to honor Neil McKiernan, an outstanding public servant who just recently announced his retirement from the House of Representatives where he has worked for over 20 years; 17 of those years in my office and 7 of those years as…

Well again, this seems to be a trademark of the Roberts court.

Today, September 26, is now 5 days and counting for the start of the next fiscal year which, if Congress does not act within this next 5 days, the U.S. Government will shut down. I have been around Congress for a while. I was here in 2013…

We want to cultivate talent here. We want the United States to remain a U.S. leadership in science and technology...

Not for nothing, I mean border security would be impacted with a government shutdown.

In eastern Connecticut, where again because of the Biden budgets for Navy ship building, we had last Friday, we reached the 4,000 mark for the first 8 months of 2023.

Friday, September 15, will mark the second anniversary of AUKUS, a historic new security agreement between the Governments of the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom that will integrate the most sophisticated technologies…

I think Mr. Holtz-Eakin was around for a couple of those rodeos as well.

Regrettably, once again we find ourselves in a precarious situation with some in the majority threatening to hold our economy hostage.

Where we were all home and had a chance to sort of see firsthand what is going on in terms of the labor market.

The problem of economic stagnation in America, is the extreme concentration of greed and wealth in this country, not immigration.

This hearing will focus on issues related to immigration and border security, both of which are outside the subcommittee's jurisdiction.

if we really want to do something important for American workers, we should do our job.

The kink in the garden hose in terms of the immigration system actually is the asylum process, which we have underfunded.

Well today, myself and Senator Peter Welch in the Senate, are introducing the Interest Elimination, Student Loan Interest Elimination Act.

This gets us off this train of interest. It does not excuse, it is not loan forgiveness.

It is incumbent, I believe for us, to act as a congress, and certainly this Committee has an essential role to doing that.