Nick Langworthy: “I thank the gentleman from Georgia for yielding the time. Madam Speaker, I strongly support the rule before us today and…”

“I thank the gentleman from Georgia for yielding the time. Madam Speaker, I strongly support the rule before us today and the underlying legislation that will ensure that our Department of Defense stays laser focused on military readiness, supporting our servicemembers and their families, and keeping our greatest adversaries in check. For years, this administration was allowed to waste hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money to force a woke agenda on the men and women of our military; hobbling their training, their morale, and their long-term success, all while our greatest adversary, China, relentlessly developed its own military, including even pulling ahead of us in the development of hypersonic missile technology. Today, China possesses hypersonic missiles that can hit our shores, but we do not yet have the capabilities to completely deter this particular threat. The legislation under the rule before us today focuses key resources on this technology, part of which is developed right in my own district in New York's southern tier. We cannot delay this any longer, and we cannot effectively secure our Nation and deter our adversaries, including China, without ridding our Nation's military of the radical left Green New Deal agenda that they seem to embed in our defense policy moving forward.…”