It's time. Assessing--it is time. It is time to take the plane airborne, if you will, and take it a different way.

The good news--the way the Air Force does its pilot training and has it down to a science...

I am grateful to be leading this Special Order to discuss the ongoing efforts to tackle our national debt and the looming debt ceiling crisis. Since my first day in office some 7-plus years ago, I have said that one of the single greatest…

When we talk about debt ceiling limits, as my colleague stated, we have already spent the money. Now it is time to pay our bills. When you think about how that all starts, it starts with responsible spending and allocation of funds on the…

We have strived and succeeded in making air travel as safe as possible.

Each incident over the last 100 plus years of commercial flight has taught us lessons that we have incorporated into policy changes.

Since our last major aviation accident, Colgan Air flight 3407 which killed 49 passengers and crew and one person on the ground, there have been two fatalities in domestic commercial air travel over 13 years.

Does the Air Force truly believe that a 100-year-old airplane will compete in a contested environment against China in 2050?

We set the gold standard for global aviation safety and produce the best pilots in the world.

As a lifelong aviator, I have seen firsthand the evolution of air travel in the United States.

As this Committee begins work on the FAA Reauthorization bill, I'd like to ask that committee members keep safety top of mind.

I do not think anybody in this room, no matter who you are, would disagree with the following statement that we want to have effective outcomes for our veterans, positive outcomes.

Would it be better for everyone involved if these claims were filed correctly and resolved on the first go around?

This injustice is unacceptable. No veteran or their family should have to worry about losing VA benefits for their family when choosing to spend their last days in the comfort of their loved ones in their own home.

I am looking forward to working with the committee to advance Gerald's Law and ensure that this injustice is permanently corrected.

All of us are on this committee because of the fact we want to do the right thing for the veterans and enable their right to choose, their freedom to choose.

welcome home, brothers and sisters.

Are we as effective as we could be?

I thank the gentleman for yielding. H.R. 1 will unleash domestic energy production and reverse the Biden- led Democrat assault on American energy. Democrat punitive policies have led to record-high gas prices, limited supply, and…

Let us put the guardrails in place to protect veterans from those bad actors and from those practices that we do not like.

Congress has an obligation to protect tribal sovereignty and promote tribal self-determination.

As a veteran and member of both the Armed Services and Veterans' Affairs Committees, assisting those in uniform as they transition from military service into civilian life and VA care is one of my top priorities. Too often we see veterans…

The point is, a moment lost is lost forever.

I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 94.

I am recorded as voting ``nay'' on rollcall No. 64, an amendment offered by Mr. Schneider that would prohibit the leasing plan from including the Great Lakes. I misrecorded this vote. I duly intended to vote ``aye'' on rollcall No. 64…