Pat Ryan: “We see our Republican friends are very upset. They said: This is embarrassing. What are we doing? What have we done?…”

Mr. Speaker, we face a fundamental question here: Who makes the decision to send our most precious resource, our young men and women in uniform, into harm's way? Is it a five-time draft dodger who has called them suckers and losers, or is…

I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I don't get up very often and speak much on the floor, to be honest. What I heard in the few minutes here from my colleagues is, as the gentleman from Massachusetts said…

This is a pattern. If we zoom out across all these nominees, you have Matt Gaetz, you have now Hegseth, you have the president-elect himself and a whole host of others with long standing patterns of disrespect for women.

This is the most powerful thing I have done in Congress, truly, very – it's very emotional, and it's pos – it's positive.