pfluger: we will go back to the services for a second in the race for technology. let's focus on the air force, our alma mater come the air force academy. how would you characterize the responses we are seeing out of the dod, specifically the air force. are they doing it fast? is it just average? dr. schwennesen: i think it is below average and it gives me no pleasure to say that. i think we aren't taking it seriously enough. it is as if everyone sees the train coming, everyone agrees the train is coming, but no one is taking steps to get out of the way. everyone is assuming someone else is doing it and there is no sense of emergency or coherent activity to address this issue. that is easy for me to say, easy for me to throw spears from the sidelines, but i think that one of the things that we can do is leverage our good relationships that we have with ukraine. we've given them a lot of resources and they are willing and eager to give us something back in return. we should be mopping that information up. we should be sending people there right now. rep. pfluger: i

pfluger of texas. mr. crank of colorado. the speaker pro tempore: the chair announces the speaker's appointment, pursuant to 14 u.s.c. 1903-b and the order of house of january 3, 2025, of the following members on the part of the house to the board of visitors to the united states coast guard academy. the clerk: mrs. mcclain of michigan. mr. rutherford of florida. the speaker pro tempore: the chair announces the speaker's appointment pursuant to 46 u.s.c. 51312-b and the order of the house of january 3, 2025, of the following members on the part of the house to the board of visitors to the united states merchant marine academy. the clerk: mr. valadao of california. mr. suozzi of new york. the speaker pro tempore: the chair announces the speaker's appointment pursuant to 10 u.s.c. 4555-a and the order of the house of january 3, twrieive, of the following -- 2025, of the following members on the part of the house to the board of visitors to the united states military academy. the clerk: mr. womack of arkansas. mrs. bice of okla

. >> why, thank you chairman pfluger. the prolivation of unmanned aircraft systems has cretted a technical arms race, between criminals who use uas security. and other illegal substances and invade the privacy television ordinary americans. and those tasked with the united states. both are increasing the a rapid rate. and it is important that the federal government is keeping up. time has come for r for almost r federal, staid and role law enforcement agencies to patrol the borders, large government events while also ensuring the civil liberties of drone operators. this is the goal of hr8610. the county security safety and reauthorization act, authored by chairman green and ranking member thompson, which i am proud to have cosponsored. if are years, uas, doj and other having briefed on these committees. we have seen drones shot down at airports around the country and around the world. major sporting events have been interrupted with players rushed from the fields when unauthorized drones with unknown motives, entered rest

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texas congressman august pfluger is joining us next on where the housn this very important vo.ou're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. ♪ [sofi mnemonic] can a personal loan unlock your ambitions? oh yeah. borrow up to a hundred thousand dollars to consolidate bad debt and save money for your next goal. take a swing at your kitchen reno... meant that literally. or design your actual dream wedding. consolidate bad debt and fund all your ambitions with a sofi personal loan. go to sofi.com to view your rate. sofi. get your money right. cheryl: the 119th congress officially begins today, republicans controlling both the house and the senate for the first time in five years. the first order of business, voting on a speaker so lawmakers can be sworn in. however, politico is reporting that current house speaker mike johnson does not have the votes to keep his job. johnson can only afford to lose one republican vote, kentucky congressman thomas massey already doubling down on his no vote. nonetheless, johnson remaining positive about his chances. here he is with larry

pfluger: thank you, madam speaker. i rise in strong support, full support of h.r. 29, the laken riley act. it's long overdue that we actually order seriously. that we enforce the laws that are on the books. laken riley's not an isolated incident, unfortunately. jocelyn from texas, rachel, and many others. these were innocent women horrifically killed by illegal aliens. their families are going to be mourning their loss of life for the rest of their lives. violent criminals like the one who is committed this heinous act and others continue to pore over our border daily. which is why we desperately need to pass this act today. this legislation will protect american communities by requiring immigration and custom enforcement to issue detainers, mandatory detention for those who are here illegally who also commit theft. .. it's pretty simple and should be nothing controversial about that. i'm interested to see my colleagues that voted against this, madam speaker, going back to their districts, and they tell them, i don't s

pfluger. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman virginia tech. mr. pfluger: i rise today in full support of h.r. 28, the protection of women in girls in sports act. female athletes should never be forced to compete against biological men in sports plain and simple. allowing men to complete in sports is not only a failure to women who trained their whole lives to achieve their dreams, but also completely ignores the scientific fact that men and women have clear biological conferences that make competing on the same sports team unfair and dangerous. mr. speaker, last year the biden administration tried to push a radical title ix change that could have prevented any institution receiving federal funding from bang biological men from competing in sports. educational institution vs. a responsibility to protect the women and girls that attend them. this legislation ensures they'll be able to do just that. let me be clear, allowing biological men to committee in women sports hurts women. it takes away opportunities, scholarship funds and titles meant for wo

pfluger: thank you, madam speaker. i rise in strong support, full support of h.r. 29, the laken riley act. it's long overdue that we actually take law and order seriously. that we enforce the laws that are on the books. laken riley's not an isolated incident, unfortunately. jocelyn from texas, rachel, and many others. these were innocent women horrifically killed by illegal aliens. their families are going to be mourning their loss of life for the rest of their lives. violent criminals like the one who is committed this heinous act and others continue to pore over our border daily. which is why we desperately need to pass this act today. this legislation will protect american communities by requiring immigration and custom enforcement to issue detainers, mandatory detention for those who are here illegally who also commit theft. .. it's pretty simple and should be nothing controversial about that. i'm interested to see my colleagues that voted against this, madam speaker, going back to their districts, and they tell th

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pfluger from texas. >> gentleman from texas recognized for two minutes. >> thank you, madame speaker. i rise in full support of hr 29, the laken riley act and long overdue that we take law and order seriously that we enforce the laws that were on the books. laken riley is not isolated incident unfortunately. jocelyn nungaray from texas and rachel morand and these were innocent womenen horrifically killed by illegal aliens and families will be mourning their loss of life for the rest of their lives by the criminals are the ones that commit these heinous act and continue to come and this will protect american communities by requiring them to issue detainers and going to have detention for those who are here illegally and it's very simple and nothing controversial about this and in fact, i'm interested to see my colleagues on the other side of the aisle that vote against this and go back to the districts and going back to the districts and this is not for law and order what's the number of aliens and theft or rape or murder or any other offense. how can you go and say that? in texas, by

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