This week, we are bringing to the floor the Service Member Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act, otherwise known, of course, as the NDAA.
This bill both invests in the quality of life for our service members and their families and strengthens our national security capabilities.
Those two aspects are what drove the negotiations and the effort for this entire bill.
The quality of life of our service members and our national security capabilities.
The NDAA supports the deployment of the National Guard to our southern border.
Thank you.
House Republicans take our responsibility to provide for our service members and their families and the mission seriously and we look forward to working with President Trump and his administration to secure our border, bolster our national security and support our military.
This comprehensive bill ensures that America can remain the most powerful in the world and I thank the House and Senate Armed Services Committees for their work on this.
I thank for all those that are involved in getting it to this point to be able to complete that this week and with that I will hand it over to our whip Mr. Tom Emmer.
America is back.
That was the message heard around the world following President -elect Donald Trump's successful trip to Paris over the weekend.
Watching America reassert its leadership on the global stage was both refreshing and reassuring.
It's clear that the world has been anticipating the return of a US president who can, at the very least, stay fully engaged during important discussions.
Already the impact of President Trump's leadership is being felt.
41 days before he is set to be inaugurated, he has restored respect for our country on the world stage.
This comes in stark contrast to the weak -kneed leadership Americans have been forced to endure under the We're good to go.
President Trump is quite clear.
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He will usher in a new era of peace through strength, and I'm eager to hit the ground running on day one to enact his America First agenda.
I congratulate President Trump on a successful trip to Paris, and I look forward to watching him restore our country's dominance on the world stage.
Steve Scalise.
Thank you, Whip.
This week, our members have been working for months on bringing to the floor Wednesday
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Rooting out more of the woke policies over at the DOD.
And of course, that ultimately is going to get fixed when President Trump takes office next month.
And he talked about those things during the campaign.
What he would do to re -strengthen, reinvigorate our military.
But at least we give President Trump some really good tools and important tools to recruit and retain.
We're good to go.
Under the weight of the failed Biden -Harris policies.
You know, we talked a lot during the campaign about securing America's border, strengthening our energy security, lowering costs at the grocery store, at the pump for families who have been paying way too much under the failed Biden -Harris policies.
But we also talked about what we do to stabilize tax policy to prevent a massive $4 .5 trillion tax increase.
Which Kamala Harris wanted to impose.
She actually campaigned bragging that she would allow tax cuts to expire, putting a massive tax increase on families.
And so we're already working on what we will do in those first few months to deliver on those promises and get our economy back on track to help provide real relief for families who are struggling.
And those talks are going really well, not only amongst House Republicans, House, Senate.
Senate Republicans, but also the Trump administration.
And Trump officials in the transition team have been part of those conversations because we want to make sure the day we start in January, President Trump's policies are going to be front and center.
The things that we all campaigned on.
It wasn't just President Trump who talked about those things as he did.
We talked about those too.
And the good news is we got elected and we got a mandate from the American people.
Who want to see a secure border?
Who want to see lower costs?
Who want to see us to finally confront those problems that Biden and Harris created?
And we're going to do just that.
The work is already started.
We cannot wait until January to not only take office, but as we're preparing, we're doing that work already today here, leading that effort for us as our speaker, Mike Johnson.
Thank you, Steve.
Leader, good morning to all of you.
I was here until late last night, about 13 hours ago.
All these seats were filled with We're good to go.
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Speaking of President Trump...
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Thank you all for being here for that.
We're continuing to lay the groundwork for our very aggressive first 100 days agenda in the Congress that we've all been planning for for a long time.
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At the same time...
While we plussed up those other accounts, we cut $31 billion in bloated Pentagon bureaucracy, obsolete weapons and inefficient programs.
A lot of that will continue into the new year, and those are some very important innovations.
The safety and security of the American people is our top priority, and this year's NDAA ensures our military has the resources and the capabilities needed to remain the most powerful fighting force on the planet.
I look forward to voting for it later this week, and I think you'll have a large vote on the House floor in affirmation of all this.
Also this week we'll be voting on the Judges Act to ensure there's a sufficient number of federal judgeships for our growing population.