"This budget I am holding up, is an entire policy based on the same kind of thinking. It would seek to slash our investment in development by 32 percent."
"I think everyone here recognizes that our planet is an amazing place, and while we should look at all the climate theories with a critical eye, we can all admit that we can harm our planet."
"We need to be in these places."
"It would not just be Salvadorans pushed aside by the heartless and harmful approach to foreign policy."
"I think it is imperative that Congress reverse Digital Realty."
"Davis-Bacon requires on military construction and maintenance costs causes those contracts to pay an additional 20 percent higher wages than market rates."
"We must house, refit, train our troops in a way that makes their competiveness unquestionable."
"These costs take dollars from other projects and limit the effective use of military construction dollars."
"Davis-Bacon requires a Federal construction contract to pay at least the prevailing wage that construction workers in the area are earning on private contracts."
"We need to make every dollar spent on defense and specifically these construction projects as efficient as possible."
"This is an egregious waste of the committee's time."