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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, deters China, combats anti -Semitism,
We're good to go.
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 U .S. 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 Harris -Biden administration over the last four years.
From their disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal to Russia's invasion of Ukraine to Iran and its proxies' attacks against Israel.
We're good to go.
I think?
Well, thank you, Whip.
This week, our members have been working for months on bringing to the floor Wednesday
We're good to go.
I think?
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Under the failed Biden -Harris policies.
But we also talked about what we'd 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 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 We're good to go.
I think?
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.
I think?
We're good to go.
I think?
The office is taken.
And as Whip Emmer said, there's a palpable sense out there that this is a new day in America.
It's not just a catchphrase.
We feel that.
We sense it everywhere we go.
And American families are ready to see an America First agenda.
And we're excited about that.
You hear a lot of talk about the agenda and how it will be formulated and come together right out of the gates in early January.
We're working on that right now.
In fact, House Republicans are already working to enact that agenda.
We met, as you know, last week.
We brought Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy here to discuss how we cut waste, fraud, and abuse from the federal government.
And it was a very productive series of meetings.
We had a smaller group discussion and then the larger one in the Congressional Auditorium.
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 and talking about for a while.
But in the waning days of this Congress...
I want to thank Chairman Mike Rogers of the House Armed Services Committee and all the committee members and all the staff for their really hard work on the bill.
We spent a lot of time and effort working on it because our service members and their families deserve our best efforts.
That's why we made landmark investments in their quality of life, as you heard, with a 14 .5 %...
We're good to go.
We supported the deployment of the National Guard at the border, we expanded U .S. joint military exercises with Israel, and we increased funding for U .S. defense initiatives in the Indo -Pacific, and that includes Taiwan.
At the same time, while we plussed up those other accounts, we cut $31 billion in bloated We're good to go.
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.
Look, Republicans believe in the rule of law.
And we've got to uphold that principle.
We can't overburden the courts and our judges with these excessive caseloads, and that's what's been happening.
It's been 35 years since Congress has authorized a package like this, and our population and caseloads have grown, and we just have to address this for the judicial branch to keep peace.
More judges means more Americans can access equal and impartial justice without waiting years to get it.
Yes, ma 'am.
I wanted to ask about the generalized system of preferences.
January 1st, it'll have been gone for four years.
Is this something that leadership still wants to bring back?
And if so, will it go on the suspension calendar early next year?
Or will it need to wait for all the big bills to move the immigration and the tax reform?
We haven't even had a chance to really address that in any detail.
So stay tuned on that when I get back to you.
Yes, ma 'am.
Over here, second row.
Thanks.
The Kids Online Safety Act, I'm just curious, does the updated text, the sewage, the concerns members in your caucus have had about it?
And if not, what is your message to parents who say the government needs to do more to protect their kids from the harmful effects of social media?
Yeah, look, it's a really important issue as a parent.
We're good to go.
We're good to go.
Yes, ma 'am.
Thank you.
After yesterday's steering committee meeting, it looks likely that there will be no women as elected committee chairs for the next Congress.
I'm just curious if you think that poses any challenges for the party as you craft policy over the next two years.
Chairman of committees are very important positions, but we really do engage all the membership.
We have extraordinary women serving in Congress and in the Republican conference.
In fact, we elected some really strong women in this upcoming freshman class.
We value those voices and they have Everybody has an equal say at the table and I'm really proud.
I don't think we haven't decided all the committee chairs yet, as you know, so we'll see how this shakes out.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Your first year in Congress was 2017, the last time we saw a GOP trifecta.
Republicans spent the large majority of that year
You've got to remind me of that, don't you?
It's a great question, and as you know, we're having lots of thoughtful discussion about the best...
Play calls.
Y 'all have heard me talking about our proverbial playbook we've been developing for about a year.
It's well designed.
And so we have a menu of options.
What we're deciding right now is the sequence of how we run those plays.
And it's really important.
The House and the Senate have different calculations on how that's done.
But we all have exactly the same priorities.
The incoming administration, the Senate Republicans and the House Republicans.
We've got to take care of the border as a top priority.
And we will.
We've got to get the economy going again.
And we will.
Part of that is ensuring that we don't have the largest tax increase in...
We're good to go.
I think?
Thank you all so much.
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