As we withdraw from Afghanistan, we have not seen an operational plan to save our brave Afghan partners and allies.

The Taliban will kill them if they can, and they will rape and murder their wives and kids first, if they can.

Thanking Admiral Gilday for defending basic American values of free and critical thought.

high-speed rail creates nearly twice as many good paying jobs per billion dollars invested as highway and transit projects.

subsidizing electric vehicles... actually reduces jobs.

if all they are going to do is produce silent traffic jams, that is not going to improve congestion, is it?

I remove my name as a cosponsor of H.R. 1127. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Jones). The gentleman's request is granted. ____________________

I was paid when I volunteered for the Marine Corps.

What a contrast to the previous President who, of course, dodged the draft and called our troops losers and suckers.

The Trump administration set us on a withdrawal timeline for this month, and it's clear from the testimony this morning that they laid out no clear plans for how that would actually be accomplished.

It's clear that we will not win the war in Afghanistan. But there are still many disastrous ways that we can lose.

Irrespective of the Trump administration's failures, this responsibility is now squarely on the shoulders of the Biden administration.