Henry Cuellar: “I would ask you all to streamline the process to get that done.”

This pardon gives us a clean slate. The noise is gone. The work remains.

This last appropriation bill, the current one, we have enacted funding for 2024 an additional $570 million.

I thank the gentlewoman from North Carolina for yielding. I thank her staff also for the hard work and long hours they have been putting in. I thank also my good friend from American Samoa and her staff for getting this bill to the floor…

With the current resource limitations, I am very concerned about your agency's capacity to defend against the threats that you just mentioned, especially when you said, it is only the tip of an iceberg.