This TIGER Task Force has taken a close look at our FMS process, and the bill before you today represents the first step toward legislative improvements in the process.

We should arm our allies and simplify this bureaucracy, so that they can do the fighting for their interests.

Our FMS sales are a critical tool of foreign policy.

Everything should be on the table. So I'm not going to sit here tonight and say that we should never consider striking inside Iran, if they're calling for a war with Iran then they're not playing on our side.

Historically, we've seen them always go for the kind of Goldilocks option, that carefully calibrated, it's forceful, it's significant, it sends a strong message, but it doesn't escalate this conflict further.

Deterrence is hard, but war is worse, Anderson, and we don't want to get involved in a direct war with Iran. That would play right into our enemy's hands.

Mr. Speaker, Americans bought nearly 60 million guns between 2020 and 2022. It is not hard to understand why. People are scared. Each day brings news of another gun violence tragedy, and most don't even make the headlines. It is natural to…

We wouldn't need nearly as many ambulances, we wouldn't need nearly as many State police cruisers if we didn't have so many people in cars.

I was delighted to see that just last week the administration announced $6 billion in funding for high-speed railcars.

Every single year, Massachusetts spends $64 billion to subsidize our car transportation system.

Given the pace of evolving threats today, this is grossly unacceptable.