Because no cost is greater than that of young men, of young Americans, like the young man who was killed, 18-year-old Leonel Rondon.

no cost is greater than the worth of the life of Americans.

Humans have killed nearly every right whale in existence through our direct and indirect actions over the past two centuries.

Mr. Speaker, amidst the tragedies of the Iraq war, I witnessed one of the proudest demonstrations of democracy in modern times. When Iraqis voted for the first time, they dipped their fingers in ink and, rather than hiding those fingers…

Mr. Speaker, last year I attended a rally where the father of a gunshot victim spoke, and he talked about all the things that he and other people around this country are doing to end senseless gun violence. Then he turned to the crowd and…

But we certainly have tax-cut our way into it. And the deficits that have been created by the Trump tax cuts are unprecedented in our nation's history.

We have seen that the military solution isn't working.

In my experience as an infantry officer on the ground in Iraq, there were many times when I was asked to do jobs that I was unprepared for and untrained for, because they were State Department jobs, but the State Department wasn't there.

So if we want to be an average country, we are doing just fine.

Today marks our subcommittee's fifth discussion on reforms to the Department of Defense's background investigation and security clearance process.

No American family should go home in the evening with the fear that their house might blow up.