Matt Gaetz

Violence on January 6 doesn't justify weaponizing the government against people who were innocent and did nothing wrong.

We must continue to bring to this floor areas in the world where U.S. troops are present where there is no clear end game, where there is not an end state that is clearly achievable. What our generation has learned as a consequence of…

May I inquire as to my remaining time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Florida has 19\1/2\ minutes remaining.

In this piece, it highlights five countries-- Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, and Gambia--where the very people who led the coups were the very people who received this training from the United States. I would note that any…

It is a great honor to participate in this debate with my esteemed colleague, Mr. Meeks, of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and with a great patriot such as Mr. James of Michigan. I welcome the American people to the second part in a…

If it is something that is unclear, we will probably put in the NDAA prohibitions so that these recommendations are never adopted.

Moreover, Mr. Speaker, we are seeing the government in Somalia achieve gains in large part because of local discontent with Al-Shabaab. Because of climate change, we are not seeing the same amount of agricultural and livestock…

I have, I think, the best Naval museum in the world, and I am having a hard time getting people to it.

I can assure the gentleman from New York that we will have a more fulsome discussion regarding the continent of Africa because the next in our legislative series may very well be Niger. We will have that opportunity, as well. To my…

We must suspend all foreign aid for the war in Ukraine and demand that all combatants in this conflict reach a peace agreement immediately.

By the way, I am one of those MAGA Republicans that would defund your salary, your agency. I think all these good things that you say exist could happen with those folks at the local and State level. This is a terrible abuse of power.

I want to recruit talented women into our Army, and I am concerned that this weird stuff that you guys are doing is not going to make it more likely that those people are going to sign up.

Our criminal justice system is insane. It's dangerous. It's harmful. And it is destroying the fabric of our city.

To the extent that there is an impact on crime rates in major cities, I would suggest that this is exactly what you get with the 'Soros-ization' of the United States justice system.

White House staffers are some of the most powerful people on the planet Earth.

Donald Trump was in his words, 'fierce and focused' on this historic night.

I remember back in the 1990s when President Bill Clinton said that we were at risk of a space arms race.

The reality we know, as we sit here now, is while we may have paused during some years in the 1990s, our adversaries did not.

I fully share that vision. And I think the future of the country literally may depend on it.

I would suggest that that is misguided. I have heard directly from people that this embrace of DEI and 'White fragility' and 'White rage' harms our recruiting effort in the area of the country where we do our best recruiting, in the…

Shouldn't you, though? I mean, here we are having recruiting challenges. You guys are releasing personnel information of predominantly Republicans to a Democrat opposition research firm.

I agree with that. We have got a younger generation that is too dumb, fat, slow, addicted, and on video games to be eligible to serve in the military.

Zero tolerance for our fellow Americans, when they are trying to exercise their rights and protect their liberties.

Absolutely shameful.

The rights of the American people this shall not be infringed, period.