Henry Cuellar

I am looking at your testimony. And, without going into details, I would ask you... recommendations that we can follow up to help you enforce this improper payments...

Is there anything in the law that prevents any President... from giving the impression that he was providing this food?

How do we prevent this from happening in the future?

The last time you provided these reports, Admiral, you know, we had X amount of countries in South America, 19... now we have 19 out of the 33 countries that have joined the One Belt One Road Initiative.

We have the influence of Iran in South America. Not only do we have the influence of them, but we also have the Russian influence in countries.

I think the maps that you have provided to us to show where the criminal organizations are coming from and how they are affecting us, whether they are bringing in drugs or people, they are there.

I want you to talk to us about this sense of urgency and what this committee can fund.

I want to thank you for diversifying the academies.

Can you tell us a little bit about prep schools and how you all use prep schools to get diversity into your academies?

But we really need to start doing this because we are going to wake up like they did back in the 1980s where they said, 'Oh, my God, look what has happened in Nicaragua. The Sandinistas have taken over.'

I know this is only part. It still takes the other part, as you mentioned, Tom.

My concern is that, as we are looking at other places of the world, in our own backyard we have got--starting to get a heavy influence of Russians, but mainly Chinese.

My issue has been how do we explain that the United States--and I am very supportive of the military--but how do we spend more money than China, Russia, and the other countries combined and it still seems like they, with less money than we…

I want to thank Chairman DeFazio for his leadership, his staff for working hard on this particular bill, and the ranking member and his staff for doing this. I want to talk about one project that got added, and that is the Chacon Creek in…

I want to thank Chairwoman Lowey for all the wonderful work that she has done on this appropriation bill, a very balanced bill that she has done, and I want to thank Kay Granger and also Mr. Calvert for the work that they have done, even…

I thank Chairman DeFazio and Ranking Member Graves and their staff for the wonderful work that they did for putting this bipartisan bill together, and also Chairwoman Grace Napolitano. Mr. Speaker, for the last 14 years, I have been…

In 1775, the Spanish dollar was announced as the first currency with legal use in the United States, and this was approved by the Continental Congress, suggested by Thomas Jefferson. The design of the American dollar in 1792 was based off…

I thank Chairman DeFazio for yielding. I also thank his staff for working very hard to put this bill together that will add $1.5 billion to the $1 trillion that will be added for our highways and the infrastructure that we need. Thank you…

I thank Chairman Lipinski for yielding to me. Mr. Speaker, my amendment is very simple. What it does, it directs funding for road crossings at international bridges. An area like my hometown in Laredo, which is the largest inland port…

Mark Twain said many years ago: ``Thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.'' Look, we can talk about doing things, or we can get the work done. I think today we should choose to get the action done. This is the first…

We have to look at this inventory and look at the transition.

I certainly agree with the chairman and the ranking member and the rest of the committee.

On Tuesday, March 3, 2020 I regret not being present for a vote session. Had I been present, I would have voted in support of H. Res. 387 Condemning continued violence against civilians by armed groups in the Central African Republic and…

But once you drill in and you see what is there and the people that live there, and some of them have lived there for generations, you see some historic areas.

Give us a plan, and we will work with you.