Political Quotes

I rise today to urge you and all of our colleagues to support amendment No. 57 to the FY 2026 Department of Defense appropriations bill. This amendment strikes section 8072, a misguided rider that prohibits the Navy from decommissioning…

I encourage all of my colleagues to support this bill. We all swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. The Fourth Amendment does not say that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. It says as an American, you…

I thank my colleague for yielding. Those are a lot of words from the opposition to this bill to say that citizenship does not matter. That is basically their argument: We don't care if you are a citizen. In fact, they encourage you to not…

My amendment really should be called the define the mission act for Ukraine or the define the mission amendment. We voted on this last summer as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, and 129 of our colleagues agreed that the…