Donald Norcross

doesn't that increase some of the risk?

I thank the Member for yielding and including my two amendments in this package. My first amendment directs OSHA to implement an emergency temporary standard to protect employees, employers, and customers from COVID-19. In these chaotic…

I thank the chairman for yielding and certainly for his leadership in bringing this bill to the floor and to the ranking member, Mac Thornberry, for his years of service to this country. We certainly appreciate it. This bill continues the…

I thank the chairman for his leadership. We just heard from a daughter of a fitter out of the UA. I spent 37 years in the construction industry as an electrician. We heard just the other day that 40 percent of those who make $40,000 or…

For those who are focused more on the economy than the people you represent, I just want to say one thing. There is an old saying. Those with the most toys or money when they die win. It doesn't matter how much money you have if you die.

If we were in a war, would we talk about the debt? No, we would do what we have to do as a country. And we are in a war except it is the virus.

Just a reflection, that when we look at our children, who are our future, this is why it is so important that when we do open, we open the right way.

it is unacceptable, that we can find money to bail out billionaires, and millionaires, and corporations, and we cannot invest in our students right now and in their future.

Would you be in favor of predictable ways of bringing up that percentage?

So, we didn't like it then. So, I don't think we like it any more now.

So, obviously, people are now understanding at a different level why being made in America is important.

There is more than one area. The REA is something that has been set up and they can do it.

the idea of halting this contract to me would be an absolute critical mistake.

As the Navy continues its modernization to address great power competition, logistics will be critically important.

corona [coronavirus] has taught us something in a lesson that we should take--that when our supply chain is outside the United States, we are at risk.

One thing we have to remember is that cost is on Boeing. This is a fixed contract which needs to be looked at the way we do it because the requirements has been an issue on this piece, literally, going back years.

It is a very important point I hope the committee takes note of, that China and Russia are both making great efforts to get toeholds in South and Central America, and we can't just ignore that.

I will just close by saying I have my ear to the ground with that community, and I know they would be pleased to hear what the plan is because, at minus 30, it is hard to operate a machine gun with an open door.

Yet, here we are getting ready to curtail 36 Super Hornets because we are expecting, you know, the F/A-XX to come online.

Right. Just quickly, and this is for all our witnesses. Coronavirus. We see what it is doing to the Italians right now.

We wanted to make sure we had no reduction in our ability to bring on fifth generation into the Air Force.

If we continue to build the same kinds of systems and fight the same kind of way, we are playing into their hands.

We live in a world that is technology rich. And so that should give us both concern, but also, you know, a lot of appeal.

We don't want to get too deep in the weeds, but closing up the proper way. It is not the opening, it is the resealing that is the problem.

If you go back to the Cold War, we were generating most of the technology that found its way to the battlefield.