This funding will guarantee the development of important technologies and research capabilities to address the existing SOCOM requirements.

I am so grateful that our colleagues across the aisle have become so interested in the impact of the national debt on the American people. I only wish that, during their time in control of the White House, we had not doubled the national…

I feel strongly that to enable the continued supremacy of U.S. Special Forces in the 21st century, our warriors need to be the most physically fit, optimally performing, and resilient to extreme environments of any force ever assembled.

I commend you, Madam Chair, for having this hearing, and I urge you and the subcommittee to look closely at this issue as you develop the Defense Appropriations bill for the upcoming year.

I have spoken with many of my colleagues in the Republican conference who have said, you know, maybe town hall meetings where you invite everybody that's angry with you isn't the best way to make your first impression.

Let's be slow on the trigger. If people throw water on me, like they've been saying on social media they're going to do, I won't melt. I'm not the wicked witch.

Yes, I do believe this president should, in fact, release his tax returns.

We as Republicans have the best argument. We've just got to be courageous enough to make it.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. The gentleman is from Texas. I am from Florida. Both of our States have seen many of the negative economic consequences of illegal immigration, but my question relates to the negative national security…

I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak to the danger that is currently posed by the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran and its fundamentalist government pose the gravest threat to global peace…

I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding. Isn't it refreshing to have a President of the United States who is willing to do, in office, precisely the things he said he would do on the campaign trail, notably, putting the interests of…

I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding. I similarly thank him for many nights coming to this floor and defending values that are not only uniquely American, but which are unmistakably conservative. I appreciate him for being the…