ryan will vote no on the garamendi amendment. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? mr. evans: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. lawson, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. lawson will vote yes on h.r. 4350. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? mr. jeffries: as the member designated by congresswoman grace meng, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that congresswoman meng will vote yea on the garamendi amendment. as the member designated by chairwoman eddie bernice johnson, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that chairwoman johnson will vote no on the garamendi amendment. as the member designated by congressman brendan boyle, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that congressman boyle will vote no on the garamendi amendment. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the honorable gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. calvert: thank you. as the member desi

after chairman -- good afternoon chairman garamendi. on behalf of the sailors civilians and families in ics may be thank you for the opportunity to testify on readiness. [inaudible] we see a strong opportunity to accelerate learning to improve function between people and infrastructure and are key readiness. we have sustained 85% capable missions. across the maturity of the aircraft models scaling innovation and leadership behaviors that we learned in horn at readiness from the 55% baseline in 2018. we look forward to working with the defense played to sustaining cat lays on these gains improving it by bouncing this increase mission capable rates. we are leveraging this fundamental learning to get real get better tools and a proposed plan to sustain a framework to improve performance in our public and private. since 2019 the navy is achieved completion and reduced maintenance working through covid and packs of 2020 it clearly for performance improvement is at an early stage and they seem much work to be done to complete minutes on time.

garamendi of california. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlemanfrom california and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from california. mr.garamendi: the united states, russia and china are engaged in a new nuclear arms race. the rapid development by all three nations of new bombs, new stealth delivery systems and reliance on space for observation and communications makes this new nuclear arms race more dangerous. therefore, in an effort to slow the pace and create times for tkpoeurbgss to move forward, i rise to offer an amendment to the fiscal year 2022 national defense authorization act that pauses the development and prohibits the funding for the ground-based strategic tkerpbt program and the associated w-87-1 warhead for the fiscal year 2022. this amendment extends the service life of the minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile. the current missile is slated to replace until at least 2040. my amendment requires the use of nondestructive methods and t

garamendi. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized mr. garamendi: thank you, mr. chairman. madam speaker, today i rise in support of fiscal year 2022 ndaa. i would like to start by thanking chairman smith and ranking member rogers and my colleague on the subcommittee, mr. lamborn, and of course the house armed services staff who have worked many long nights putting this ndaa together. the bill that's before the house, it's a good bill. i encourage my colleagues to support it. the jurisdiction of the readiness subcommittee covers a broad range of topics from civilian personnel, sustainment, contested logistics, to military construction, energy, safety, and environmental policy. with that in mind, just like to highlight some of the issues we dealt with. consistent with our work over the last two years, the readiness provisions continue efforts to address the climate change challenges of extreme weather and the necessity to reduce the greenhouse gas admitted by the u.s. military, the largest single emitter in the world. we have acquired -- we require each installatio

garamendi. >> gentlemen, thank you so very much for your testimony. before i go any further i want to acknowledge an extraordinary effort and successful effort made by the u.s. military and especially the air force in the most awesome and successful evacuation of civilians ever in the history of this world. well done, very, very well done, and compliments to all involved in that. the loss of the members of the military was a great tragedy and you and all of us regret that. the fog of war is only repeated by the fog of the committee. so let me lay out some time frames here. in mid-2018, former president ordered formal and direct u.s. negotiations without the afghan government participating. in august 2019 president trump said he would withdraw all, all u.s. troops as quickley as possible. in february 2020 the united states and the taliban signed a formal agreement in which the united states committed to withdraw all of its troops, contractors, and nondiplomatic civilians from afghanistan no later than 2021. in june 2020, u.s. troop levels reached 8,600