Michael Waltz

We do not have race-based composition goals at the academy.

The NDAA [National Defense Authorization Act] strongly affirms that admission to our service academies must be on the basis of merit, not on skin color or ethnicity.

This isn't a way of thinking or a history class, this is present-day indoctrination.

Instead of being inclusive, it simply makes words meaningless.

Why weren't they comfortable in an inclusive environment going through their chain of command? And that is something that I think I encourage you to deeply, deeply think about.

I believe race-based admissions in any form violate the Constitution, and the military service academies must ensure immutable characteristics like race, like color, have no bearing on a candidate's ability to tackle the rigors of the…

All of this--the inclusive language, the safe spaces, the microaggressions--may hide under a sheen of inclusivity, but it is actually an ideology which serves a purpose.

I reserve the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman has the only time remaining.

We talk a lot about misinformation. There are no instances of artillery, missiles, flamethrowers, or anything else that has been said about this being passed on to law enforcement that is prohibited by Congress, and this amendment would…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of subtitle E of title X, insert the following: SEC. 10__. AVAILABILITY OF EXCESS DEPARTMENT OF…

I represent one of the poorest counties in Florida.

Frankly, a lot of the folks in this place also have Marxist backgrounds.

I have served in countries all over the world where woman aren't disadvantaged, they are brutalized.

Are they privileged systemically?

We are a country where our ideal has been merit.

We have to self identify.

At the same time, that same woman who broke all of those barriers was quite offended when a classmate of mine, who is African American, got a scholarship, I didn't.

Equitable treatment means we all end up in the same place.

So I think what we are going back to and I think the disconnect here and that you will find with the thrust of your program and in my experience and Representative Mills is what we are talking about really is poverty and how we address…

I think it is one of the most consequential economic, diplomatic, security relationships we have in the 21st century.

it will take 18 years to process that many visas. These people are being hunted down by the Taliban right now, as we speak. Despite the President and your boss, the Secretary, lauding this as an outstanding success, it was an absolute…

It sounds like they are not moving fast enough, at least to meet the demand.

At 587 days of delay?

if you had done--if the State Department had done their job, you would not have veterans groups exhausting their savings, exhausting their kids' 529 plans, getting divorced, committing suicide because of the people we left behind.

But if you look at how long it is going to take to process those that were left behind, they do not have another year or two to hide from the Taliban.