ADAM PUTNAM: “There are no excuses and no scapegoats left.”

I am pleased to bring to this floor House Resolution 1052. The resolution is a rule that provides for consideration of H.R. 5825, the Electronic Surveillance Modernization Act. H.R. 5825 relates to the manner in which the Federal…

I think it's time for us to have sort of a status report of how we got here. Two years ago, it was publicly revealed that one of our Members of this House, a gentleman from New Orleans, had an FBI raid on his home and had discovered 90,000…

Mr. Chairman, I thank the sponsor of this amendment. This is a defining moment, an illustrative debate about priorities for this Nation. To set the stage for this debate, we have to look at the original blueprint for the Nation's spending…

I would submit that it is real, it is significant, and it is growing; and the notion that we would scale back this Nation's preparedness from rogue nations such as North Korea and Iran and the ever-mounting potential threat coming from…