Kay Granger

Thank you very much. I would like to thank you, Chairman Kaptur and Ranking Member Simpson, for holding the hearing today.

People that are supportive of this request have said to me, if we don't move now, China will own space, and who owns space owns the Earth and our technology in it.

I strongly support this accelerated 2024 goal and the Artemis program, appropriately named after Apollo's twin sister.

The only way to protect both our national security and our economy is to dominate space and beat the Chinese and other near-peer adversaries.

Space, I believe, is the next high ground, and we have to take it.

As I said before, these bills were written to an unrealistic top-line funding number. We still do not have consensus on a budget agreement. Moving this second appropriations package today as-is is another wasted opportunity. The package…

I strongly support the supplemental appropriations bill and urge a ``yes'' vote, and I yield back the balance of my time.

To close, I would like to thank Chairwoman Lowey for her leadership. I look forward to working with her on legislation that addresses both natural disasters and the humanitarian crisis on the border. We should provide much-needed relief to…

I request that you support, at a minimum, the President's budget request for nuclear waste disposal.

The Supreme Court is vital to our system of government and ensuring the survival of our Republic.

I support this conference agreement before us today, and I urge a ``yes'' vote. I yield back the balance of my time. General Leave

On the billions that we have spent in the last, what we determined 17 years--17 years on this program, we can't get that back. And it doesn't go to Treasury. It is just gone. Let's stop that.

Congress doesn't enjoy a great deal of admiration from the public, and I think one of the reasons is...

We need to have an urgency and an understanding of how important this really is.

There was no urgency whatsoever.

I don't ever recall being more outraged about an issue than I am about the electronic health records program.

Thank you for all that you have done, your many years of service.

The proposal to eliminate community development block grants could be particularly harmful because the program provides a critical resource for local decision makers.

There is a vulnerability that I know you are familiar with and that is the garages.

It is a flood control issue, because the Corps of Engineers came in 40 years ago in Fort Worth there was a massive flood.

When I was at Fort Worth it had at 370,000 people, and it now has 800,000 people.

It has been authorized for the Congress, it has been authorized by two Presidents, and it has been funded up until the last 2 years.

Unfortunately, the violence and hopelessness driving parents to send their children on the dangerous journey to the United States has not disappeared since then.

The treatment of children entering our country unaccompanied by an adult is one that concerns everyone in this room.

I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on the bill before us today, and I yield back the balance of my time.