Pat Fallon

Mr. Fallon. Republican legislation protecting consumer choice has talked many Democrats out of supporting the Department of Energy's proposed rulemaking.

it is Congress' job to decide the 'consequential tradeoffs involved in such vital considerations of national policy.'

these are issues of life, liberty, and prosperity, fundamentally political in nature.

They did not have the authority, and it is not going to stand.

Let me be very clear. Republicans are not anti-EV. In fact, my family owns one.

The cost of an electric car right now is little over $61,000, 35 percent more.

Under our constitutional republic, it is for Congress alone to make the monumental decisions EPA is assuming for itself in these proposed rules.

The EPA is not, nor should it want to be, immune to congressional oversight.

we need to have fiscal discipline in this country, or we are going to end up being a third-world nation in our lifetime.

I suspect that you could do a whole lot with $400 billion, and I know we could have a whole lot of social programs with $400 billion.

The Biden Administration's rampant spending spree has put American taxpayer dollars at even greater risk of waste, fraud, and abuse.

we need a leader for this.

I strongly feel that we should be creating a seventh branch and making cyber a cyber service.

we should consider, strongly consider, and we didn't get a report for it, but strongly consider cyber as its own service.

we have got to fight the war of tomorrow and prepare for that.

We can't meet our recruiting goals and when you start seeing 20,000--my contacts in the Army are saying that we are going to miss our mark by 20,000 or 30,000 this year.

I think there is--one is one too many, but it is clearly not a serious problem...

the military is overburdened. You all know it. We know it. They know it, and, you know, wasting time on valuable, quote/unquote, ``training'' like sensitivity training, diversity, equity inclusion, I am far more concerned--not concerned…

I don't want my military to be--I don't want Democratic generals and I don't want Republican generals.

I thank the colonel for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I think it shouldn't be lost on anyone watching that the gentleman is talking about service and selflessness. We have a colonel who dedicated his life to this country both serving here on the…

Dissent is not kryptonite. It is the basis of this Nation.

Dissent shouldn't be kryptonite. We should have a civil conversation. We should have a spirited exchange of ideas.

When the left talks about this as a public health emergency, get ready to see those enhanced authorities abused by the ATF.

if you have that many more folks that are crossing the border illegally, and the cartels are charging them a tax or a fee, that is making the cartels stronger than they have ever been

I commend the President for his swift action.