Adam Smith

The U.S. should not provide the Taliban with capacity building support.

Licenses and exemptions need to be expanded.

I think we need to be very creative and learn the lessons we have learned in other jurisdictions.

I think the effort to get the SIVs... could have been handled better.

The President made the right call on that.

That option didn't exist in reality and no one presented it.

I find that analogy just completely idiotic, if I am being honest.

I think the way that option has been presented by many of the critics has been fundamentally disingenuous.

And I urge passage of the amendments en bloc. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

I concur in the remarks of the ranking member. I urge support for the en bloc, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I have no further speakers, and I am prepared to close, therefore, I reserve the balance of my time.

We spent money in a very imprudent way. We have got to instill discipline at the Pentagon so we get value for the dollars that we spend. Simply giving them another $25 billion does not do that, and $753 billion is enough. It is even better…

I too urge support of the amendments en bloc, and I yield back the balance of my time.

At this time, I have no further speakers, and I reserve the balance of my time.

Yes, there ought to be a law. And we are going to work on that, Mr. Johnson and I, together with others on this committee.

Pouring more money into F-35 is like pouring money down a rathole.

One of the lessons that I hope we've learned is the limitations on our ability as a nation and certainly as a military to impose better outcomes on other countries.

But the option we have is to send more U.S. and coalition troops to Afghanistan to, once again, full scale fight the Taliban.

Things are going to be bad in Afghanistan. There is no question about that.

I support the President's decision. It is not an easy decision. It is not a win-win-win decision where everything is going to be fine.

Thankfully, there is effort by Representatives Adam Smith and Seth Moulton that would increase the fund to $40,000.

We should never be in a position where we lose a sale like that, let's say, of a Patriot missile system, to a NATO ally against a competitor like the Russians.

Because those organizations have become more powerful and more sophisticated over the last several years, and the policies of the last 4 years, like 'Remain in Mexico,' which is being unwound now by this administration, title 42, which has…

I think we also, as a Congress, need to acknowledge that many of those transnational criminal organizations that are trafficking drugs are in place, in part, because of America's insatiable appetite for those drugs.

The idea that we can build a military large enough and strong enough to dominate China in the modern world is not realistic and is fraught with danger.