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On the recordDecember 12, 2023
Madam Speaker, one of the greatest threats to our national security is a woke military. Nothing exemplifies a woke military as much as the National Defense Authorization Act that is going to come before this body out of a Conference Report that allows transgender surgery to continue to be funded in the U.S. military. I can guarantee you that Russia and China aren't using their military dollars to pay for transgender surgery. Here in the United States, we are, and we will. If this House and the Senate passes the Conference Report, that will be the official U.S. policy. Madam Speaker, that is not defense of the Nation. That is a woke military that endangers our Nation's security. ____________________
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Andy Harris
Republican · Maryland

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