Blake Moore: “Thank you, Madam Speaker. I would yield 1 minute to my colleague from California (Ms. Speier).”

As America celebrates our 250th year, it’s only fitting that we recognize the sacrifices made that allow us the freedom we have today.

This legislation is the next and final step to giving our heroes and their families the commemoration they deserve by allowing a monument to be placed on the National Mall in Washington, DC.

There’s no way around it — we have to reform these programs if we want to save them, if we want to make them more sustainable, we have to do it.

“Maybe one of the most tone-deaf things I’ve ever seen,” Moore said, “to take money from a Russian oligarch for a wedding.”