Joe Cunningham

I think that this Administration and your office recognizes it is electoral poison to put those on the map before the 2020 election.

And that is why we have introduced H.R. 1941 to ban offshore drilling off the Atlantic and off the Pacific Coasts.

This is not a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. This is about fairness, it is about health, it is about safety.

Drinking water and wastewater treatment for rural and small communities is essential to their livelihood.

There's very little that is more important to the future of our nation than fixing our crumbling infrastructure.

American consumers, including our hardworking farmworker communities... deserve the security of a high-quality, clean drinking water supply.

I ask that this committee continue to support the Coast Guard by ensuring they have the resources they need to save lives.

I strongly urge the members of this committee to continue to prioritize climate resiliency and that service members in the Lowcountry can continue to do what they do best.

This is why it is essential that we provide the depot funding they need to modernize the island's firing ranges.

It is imperative we expedite production of this aircraft and maintain our dominance in the skies.

We can be the generation that saves the right whale or the generation that allows their extinction.

Let's pass the SAVE Right Whales Act, and arm us with the funding we need to be the generation of humans that saves the right whale.

Let's be the generation of leaders that chooses to bring the right whale back from the brink.

This is a very important issue that doesn't just affect Colorado or the western United States, it affects all of us.

I've made protecting the coast of South Carolina from the risk of offshore drilling my highest priority.

It is one of the reasons my constituents in the 1st Congressional District sent me here, and it is a commitment that I intend to honor.

Climate change is an immediate threat. It is the greatest non-military threat to our world, and we have to take it seriously.

we have been working in the State of California for a long time on this bill. I thank the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Sensenbrenner). It is a good bill. We appreciate the compromise that was made. I rise in strong support.

I did not run a program in Head Start like the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Waters), but I visited one, and then I visited another one because when I first came to Congress, and the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer) was here, I did…

I support CAFTA but I am here talking about something both sides of the aisle can support. That is to honor Jim Stockdale. Admiral Stockdale is a true American hero. He died on July 5. He was a prisoner of war for 5\1/2\ years. He was so…

let me read the citation of Admiral Stockdale's Medal of Honor, just so people understand. ``By his heroic action, in great peril to himself, he earned the everlasting gratitude of his fellow POWs and to his country.'' This was Admiral…

I am a Navy guy, but the F-22 is the only airplane in the inventory that is projected that will compete with the SU-30 and SU-37. To give my colleagues a comparison, Admiral Stockdale was flying an A-4 Skyhawk. At the time it was not a bad…

China is building the SU-30, which beats our American airplanes, our best F-14s, F-15s, F-16s, and F-18s, 90 percent of the time. It is an opportunity, but it is also a potential threat.

I am going to surprise my colleague, the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey), and support what he just said, part of it, just parts of it. I voted with the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey) on the credit card issue in the committee. And…

I came on this committee after I had been on the authorizing committee for education. Then the chairman was Congressman Jon Porter, probably one of the best chairmen that have ever chaired that particular committee. I was concerned that…