The Global Fund remains an outstanding investment.

Thank you. Mr. West.

The only way to win this fight is to strengthen defenses the Brandon Road Lock and Dam near Joliet, Illinois.

Thank you, Representative Aguilar, Representative Hurd, Representative Lawrence, and Representative Roby.

Thank you, Chairwoman Napolitano and Ranking Member Westerman, for this great opportunity, and for your fantastic leadership.

The voracious bighead carp has placed the Great Lakes fishery in jeopardy.

However, there are also proposals you should not expect to see funded in the House bill.

Unfortunately, that is getting harder and harder to do.

I cannot remember a time when there was less consensus about immigration and border security.

While the mistreatment of migrants is inexcusable, I would be remiss if I did not also recognize the dedication and commitment of the vast majority of women and men of the Department of Homeland Security.

I want to be clear that, absent any enacted law to effect such a transfer, this subcommittee will continue to include funding for the Secret Service in its bill.

I thank our hardworking chair, Nita Lowey, for yielding me this time. Madam Chair, I rise in support of H.R. 5687, the Puerto Rico earthquake supplemental funding. This $4.67 billion in funding is a vital lifeline for our fellow citizens…

Within my subcommittee's Energy and Water accounts, the bill provides over $21 million for the Department of Energy to provide technical assistance help restore and rebuild the electric grid in Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories. These…

Today's passage of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act is a major victory for the American worker. Nationwide, millions of Americans work full-time jobs yet earn unsustainable wages and little to no benefits. Too many people work…

You can't prevent if you haven't detected.

Can you give us a sense of your own knowledge of that region of the world and what more we can do, working with NATO, working with you, to counter Russia's control of the Black Sea region?

I would like to ask you to give the subcommittee an overview of the process in which you engage with the commercial sector.

I have a lot of concerns about the way that this is moving forward.

The Department of Defense needs to step up, and they need to take responsibility and work with you to remediate this problem.

I would like to ask the Army Reserve's role in the support of the Futures Command with the 75th Reserve Innovation Command.

I was extremely impressed with the Intrepid Center up at Walter Reed. That is the beginning of a coherent societal response.

I thank the distinguished chairwoman of the Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee for yielding me this time, and I thank her for her unyielding support for water issues across this country, including in our very critical Great Lakes…

I can guarantee you, when these individuals come home, the ability of our veterans system to respond is not as crisp as it should be.

In 2021, the Army budget request $44 million cut to the Army's environmental restoration account.

I have lived long enough to know what it was like to be energy-dependent and now to be 90 percent of the way to independence.