Pat Ryan: “If we are really interested in self-sufficiency and upward mobility for children and for families, is waiving that work…”

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…

We're not doing enough. We don't have the urgency. It – it needs to be a national problem.

I thank my colleague from Florida for the time. Mr. Speaker, I rise on behalf of my Hudson Valley community to honor the memories of the community members we lost on October 7 and to plead and to demand the safe return of all of the Hudson…

Hudson Valley farmers keep our community fed, and the harsh weather this year has decimated their crops.