The United States faces a diverse, fast-changing range of national security threats, nearly unprecedented in their breadth and pace of change.

Great power competition from Russia and China, which are rapidly advancing next-generation warfighting capabilities to leapfrog our legacy systems, is real.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ask my colleagues to make it easier to get mental healthcare. We should pass the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act and make 988 the national number for mental health emergencies. When your house is on…

Mr. Speaker, right now, with President Trump's permission, Turkey is slaughtering our Kurdish allies, the only people who stand between us and ISIS, men and women who have died by the thousands to protect Americans from terrorism, the…

I think it is worth just pointing out that as you say, it was not big enough. It was the Republican Congress that cut that stimulus short, and I think we could have had a much stronger recovery if we had not done that.

Neither would exist without government investment, and it is the lack of government investment that has gotten us to the embarrassing state of America's infrastructure we know well today.

We need to start making infrastructure investment decisions based on facts, on real numbers, and truly understanding the long-term costs and benefits.

The transportation infrastructure investment has historically been a bipartisan priority, and it must be going forward.

Let's invest in both and give the market a level playing field.

My colleagues across the aisle seem to think that opportunity in America is just as equal as it needs to be.

America is founded upon the idea of equal opportunity. It is our nation's guiding principle.