What are we going to do to improve the performance record here?

There are many good parts and many bad parts to the recent budget that was submitted to Congress.

I thought one of the good parts was the termination of the MOX facility in South Carolina.

So we are really not talking about a fix. We are talking about covering up the problem or stabilizing it?

It is also an essential truth-telling function.

While our military maintains capable air, land, and sea forces, the cyber and space domains now demand an increasing share of attention and investment.

I would like to focus in my questioning on how crowded space is and how it is going to get a lot more crowded.

We are protecting other countries' $1 billion satellites from a piece of shrapnel that might be traveling at 33,000 miles an hour.

I am really proud of the team and how far we have come with the FAA.

There is no more important goal.

It is really important that we ingest non-traditional data into our space surveillance network as well.

As space gets more crowded, it gets more treacherous.

Congress has examined this issue before, and ultimately decided to rescind the tax deductibility of political contributions.

Under current law, churches and other houses of worship can speak freely and engage in partisan political activity.

Your church has never been questioned in America about whether someone was qualified to be President of the United States. Mine was.

If the Johnson amendment were to be repealed, as some are suggesting, 501(c)(3) tax exempt entities and their contributors would apparently be allowed to participate in political campaigns with tax deductible donations.

So believe me: I'm a strong advocate for the United States military. I champion more money for the United States military. I want the men and women to have the most resources to protect and defend this Nation.

I hated the President's budget. I got a lot of respect for Mick Mulvaney and President Trump himself, but I thought his budget proposal on this category was pathetic and inadequate.

But let's put in perspective that 1,500 people a day are going to die from cancer. And so, if you look at the trillions of dollars our government will spend, why is fighting cancer not a much, much higher priority?

I recently introduced H.R. 1001, the Veterans Federal Hiring Protection Act. This legislation would simply exempt veterans from the hiring freeze.

by instituting a hiring freeze in the Federal Government, we're blocking out, we're freezing the opportunity of returning veterans to go to work.

this was such a serious attack on our democracy, and our election process, that it deserved that kind of attention

we didn't want it to get mired in a political battle like the Benghazi Committee did

The public back home really doesn’t care about these places. They really do care about our troops.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but lest we be more critical than we are forward-focused, I would challenge the members of this subcommittee, if they don't like the current FML levels, and as Mr. Russell suggests, it is likely that FML…