Seth Moulton

North of King's Beach is the Merrimack River, and I have got six towns in my district that the Merrimack River flows through.

When you drive up to my hometown from Boston, you go along this beautiful beach right between Lynn and Swampscott. It is called King's Beach, literally fit for a king, and yet it is closed 90 percent of the time.

My Republican colleagues often blame the military's current recruitment crisis on DEI initiatives. They say the military is becoming too woke and that it is driving away recruits. The only problem with that is that the survey data we have…

Just to pick up on that line of questioning, Mr. Secretary, is there any plan for users of EVs to pay the increased costs that the additional weight and wear and tear on the highways their vehicles creates for the highway system?

We have got to get high-speed trains that people can actually see and ride like they have in the rest of the world.

We have this technology on intercontinental ballistic missiles. I think if it can survive an intercontinental ballistic missile in space, it can handle the underside of a freight car.

I was shocked to see Boston's South Station expansion listed as one of the priorities on the Northeast Corridor project inventory.

And that just lack of basic political courage to just simply tell the truth is a real problem if you're trying to actually make a deal to fund the government.

Yes, because they're afraid of their constituents, because instead of going home to their districts, and explaining to them why this is important, why funding Ukraine, supporting Ukraine is a great investment in our national security.

The Republicans have to be willing to compromise. That's what's happened in the past and it is not happening today.

It tells the world that America is not a reliable partner, that America does not take seriously the values that we have stood for, for two centuries, that we're not willing to stand up to the greatest enemies that we face like Russia and…

These are very high stakes, Anderson. I mean, we're talking about just paying our troops and this used to be the party of national security. But the party that used to champion national security is now against paying our troops.

I don't like the idea of very intricate mapping data of our roads, video of our American people being transmitted back to Beijing.

We want to see American companies develop this technology and set the standards for the world.

I have some obvious concerns about people who are dying on the road because of this technology perhaps being deployed too soon.

I can tell you that it is a lot more than zero.

So, the idea is that we are safe traveling on automated planes and yet, therefore, we should assume we are safe traveling on highways with automated vehicles is just plain wrong by the facts.

Let me just start by associating my remarks with the remarks of my friend, Mr. Joe Wilson, from South Carolina. It is not often that we get to do that on the floor of this House. Joe and I come from different places but we believe in…

I am proud to support the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act as passed out of the House Armed Services Committee. While this bill includes some provisions that are not in line with Democratic priorities, it does represent…

I mean, it's just criminal. It's dangerous for our national security. It's an insult to every woman who puts on the uniform.

It's such an insult to every woman who's risking her life for the country tonight to have this even get out of the House of Representatives.

Of course. And they're taking us backwards, Anderson.

That's what this bill says. And that's why, sadly, so many of us are going to vote against it.

This bill does not support our troops. One out of five service members in the United States is a woman. About 40 percent of those don't have full access to the health care that they need.

No, I will not. And, Anderson, I'm a proud Marine combat veteran. I look forward to voting for the NDAA than the defense bill every single year, and I cannot support this legislation.