"I represent El Paso, Texas, home to Fort Bliss, which has--is the largest joint mobilization force generation installation in the Army."
"I never in my wildest dreams would have thought that the important work of this subcommittee would devolve in this way."
"Quality-of-life for our service members is so critical."
"I represent Fort Bliss, Texas. And in my community of El Paso, Texas, we are very, very proud to be in an Army Strong Community."
"We have to acknowledge as a country the role that we are playing in creating instability and access to weaponry that creates more violence and instability south of us."
"We can't continue to just obsess about the border; we have got to obsess about the Hemisphere."
"we can encourage the government of Taiwan to adopt a defense concept that forces the PLA into suboptimal strategies and increases the battle damage Beijing would have to anticipate and accept."
"seeking asylum is legal."
"For anyone who really, truly wants to understand what is happening at the border and to depoliticize this, we have got to take a step back and acknowledge that what we have been seeing is an historic ..."
"So, let's operate in truth and fact or we won't be able to achieve any solutions together."
"I want to take the opportunity to thank our Congresswoman, Veronica Escobar, for her leadership."