Mike Gallagher

The most severe shortfall we are facing right now in our maritime sealift capacity for wartime demands is in tankers.

To avoid America suffering the fate that we see our European allies suffering today under the threat of Russia cutting off gas supplies, we need to improve and expand our own U.S. shipping fleet to provide a hedge against the potential for…

Unfortunately I think, I mean, healthcare, the reality is, is an intensely political issue insomuch as the political process is how we make decisions on how healthcare should be provided.

The mission of the Department of Defense is to provide the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our Nation's security. This is a critical mission. On that we all agree.

Mr. President, you have got to stop this. You are the only person who can call this off. Call it off. The election is over. Call it off.

Mr. President, you have got to stop this. You are the only person who can call this off. Call it off. The election is over. Call it off.

Mr. President, you have got to stop this. You are the only person who can call this off. Call it off.

I introduced a bill that was included in the highway reauthorization act that reestablished the Motorcyclist Advisory Council.

There is a lot of U.S. territory that has not been garrisoned or hardened.

If we do all these things and then outlaw the use of acronyms, the Chinese cannot beat us. I guarantee you.

If we're going to try and give someone a highly technical skill set, we should probably just send them to a civilian institution rather than recreating something on our own.

Give the top 10 percent or 25 percent graduates preferential treatment in terms of their follow-on assignment, right. That could be a powerful incentive.

I'm not willing to just accept that necessarily. I don't think it would be a bad idea to be--to sort of post that information publicly.

I certainly applaud it, because it goes back to the point I made about literacy--what do you need to know for the position you're going to.

The idea being that, you know, go back to Rooster's [Lieutenant General Schmidle's] days and every naval officer could tell you everything about the Soviet navy.

I just would argue, in 2022--technologically, there's no barrier to it.

Well, I'm quite attracted to this idea of increasing the rigor and I would argue if someone can't write a coherent sentence or paragraph in simple and direct prose, perhaps that's an indication that that person should not be promoted…

A nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its laws made by cowards and its wars fought by fools.

I strongly suggest that we don't [divest to invest], for all the reasons that Mr. Wittman has addressed.

The concern you're hearing from a lot of people is that that means we are going to be weakest at the worst possible moment.

Inflation, left unaddressed, could effectively cut the Defense Department and hollow it out by, by some estimates $160 billion.

I hereby remove my name as cosponsor of H.R. 1297. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Mrvan). The gentleman's request is accepted. ____________________

I remain convinced that we should reject the disorder offered by our current logistics vision and work with my Democrat colleagues to correct the more egregious elements of this failing budget request.

The administration talks about our pacing challenge of China and the acute threat of Russia, but their budget requests continue to have more bark than bite.

It is incomprehensible and shameful that we cannot ensure they have the quality medical care they deserve.