On the recordDecember 13, 2023
I thank my friend, Mr. Cloud from Texas, for holding this very important discussion here on the House floor because what we will be voting on tomorrow represents the very worst of Washington. I was thankful that back in the summer, for the first time since I have been in Congress, I could vote for an NDAA after 2 years in the minority where the majority party under this President believes that the greatest threat to the military is climate and that the greatest threat to the military are conservative patriots, God forbid, Trump supporters in the military. That has been the focus of this administration as it relates to our military. {time} 2000 I voted four times against bad NDAAs that were focused on climate extremism; that were focused on forcing our military to convert to electric vehicles; that were focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion and CRT training in our academies; red flag for our military members; forcing our daughters to be drafted; focused on funding for abortion in the military; funding for transgender surgery. This past summer, our Republican Conference passed a good NDAA that I was proud to vote for because it reversed those harmful policies. Then we were supposed to have a Conference Committee that would go and negotiate with the Senate.…





