Betty McCollum: “the path that our Tea Party Republican colleagues are taking on the fiscal year 2011 budget with ideology…”

The conversation, it is a delicate one to even talk about because whenever you talk about suicide, you want to offer resources immediately.

It is one thing to call you back here for 5 minutes of testimony and talk to you about it. It is something else to go out on the reservation and actually talk to people and see the challenges that you are facing on the reservations.

I rise in support of the FY2026 Financial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act.

I will not write blank checks to the Department of Defense.