Seth Moulton

There are actually a lot of Republicans, a lot of smart, reasonable Republicans who care about our national security.

Oh, absolutely, right?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 think that…

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.

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

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

How much is the American taxpayer spending to install an entirely outdated software system?

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

MDA has a responsibility to ensure both the sustainment of missile defense today and to look ahead.

For years, these defensive systems, like the famed Iron Dome, have also saved Palestinian lives, because, previously, the only protection Israel found against these attacks was hitting back offensively.

It is safe to say that not only have these systems saved countless civilian lives, but they are a key reason Ukraine has been able to maintain its sovereignty almost 2 years after war criminal Vladimir Putin's criminal invasion.

I mean, by that number, Israel so far has killed about 5,000 Hamas terrorists, but in the process, they've recruited about 100,000 new adherents.

We want Israel to succeed in eradicating Hamas. Neither Palestinians nor Israelis can be safe and secure if Hamas still exists, but our concern is that Israel's tactics right now risks not just failing to eradicate Hamas, but actually…

Ultimately of course, we all agree that we want to deter war, and specifically we want to deter nuclear war.

I think we can all agree that we don't want a nuclear conflict.

A conventional conflict can essentially run out of conventional responses, and so it becomes nuclear.

I have often said that the world would be safer without nuclear weapons, and we should all continue to strive for that someday.

I can't support it, because the speaker is politicizing aid to Israel. He's politicizing our relationship. And fundamentally, politicizing our national security.

The Government Accountability Office has found that under payment into the Highway Trust Fund by the trucking industry distorts the competitive environment within the freight transportation sector.