Michael Waltz

I 100 percent agree, and we will be looking to insert that certification language into future legislation.

Do we control the lithium, the cobalt, the manganese that would go into an EV fleet?

I find it incredible that we are laying out in a long-term strategy to go to electric tanks and fighting vehicles.

There should be no unfunded priorities for our number one threat.

If the United States was clear, we are coming to the defense of democracy in Taiwan, then it would drive clarity in the region.

Chairman Xi has said that reunification with Taiwan one way or another, including the use of military force, just said it to the 20th party congress, is inevitable.

We have to move more quickly, if the theme of today is we are running out of time.

I know--and we are going to get delivered to this committee, Mr. Chairman, information of Haqqani and Taliban bank accounts that are lined before it ever gets to the Afghan people.

I support the delivery of aid, but I think there's different ways that we can do it.

I think the first question to Dr. Asher and Mr. Ruggiero, from your perspective, how is the Biden Administration's lack of sanction enforcement on Iran impacted the stability of Iraq?

Look, we know that Iran continues to evade sanctions.

My message--and please take this back to both AID and State--is that there is a direct correlation to continued domestic support to your ability to be able to get in theater and do your job.

H.R. 854 would allow Gold Star spouses to move forward with their lives, allowing them to remarry, free of fear of losing their benefits owed to them for their family's noble sacrifice.

We lose more people in accidents.

We had a training stand-down from the Secretary of Defense as the first order. Not on accidents, not planes crashing, not on ships crashing, although those things are happening. We didn't have servicewide stand-downs then. We had one on…

I think, deep down, a lot of people think that Republican lawmakers are making this stuff up just to score political points.

We would not be having these conversations if we did not consistently--certainly, well, I will say from my perspective, if I did not consistently have soldiers, cadets, family members, and their extended networks incredibly upset…

Tuesday, Chairman Banks and I wrote a letter to the Superintendent of West Point, regarding a Dean's Weekend training scenario...

I am working on a proposal to encourage public schools to bring in active or retired military personnel to speak to classes about, or help teach, civics and physical education.

The USS George Washington, which is undergoing a long-term overhaul at Newport News Shipbuilding, has had eight sailors assigned to the ship commit suicide in the last 10 months.

Thank you for our freedom.

The color you are worried about is red, white, and blue.

It is about taking care of the men and women to the left and the right. It is about achieving the mission.

The Army I came up with, you leave your politics at the door.

Another 68 percent are saying the politicizing of the military is impacting their advice to their children of whether to join or not--negatively.