Marjorie Greene

Ms. GREENE of Georgia

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Madam Speaker, this poster displayed here is the result of females having their skin and flesh stripped from their arms and their legs in order for a surgeon to create a fake penis and have it sewn on their body. These are the horrific scars and damage that these women are left with for the rest of their lives after undergoing these barbaric surgeries. This is not something any child, any minor under the age of 18 years old, should ever undergo. This is not healthcare. This is not a parent's choice for a child. This right here is child abuse. This is child abuse. No one under the age of 18 should ever make that decision, and no doctor should ever perform a surgery like this on a child simply because they are suffering from gender dysphoria and are confused about their feelings of how they identify and how they see themselves. This condition that so many young people are suffering with--and it has been on the rise in the past 10 years--was something that was a very small percentage. But young people today have been indoctrinated on social media. They have been indoctrinated by school counselors, teachers, and many adults, even their own parents. They are being indoctrinated to believe and take that confusion they are having just as a child, whether it is prepuberty or while they are going through puberty, to believe they want to change their gender. Here is the real truth. God only creates two sexes and two genders, male and female, and God does not make mistakes. No child is a mistake. No feeling they have inside of themselves can change that. No barbaric surgery, no chemical-castrating drugs that are given to sex predators, can change that. No amount of hormones can change that. The reality is that parents and adults across the country can use our God-given responsibility to protect children while they are growing up. We have laws that do that. We have laws that say they can't register to vote until they are 18 because they are not adults yet to make those kinds of adult decisions. We have laws that say they can't get ink tattooed on their skin until they are of legal age, and in most States it is 17 or 18 years old. We have laws that say they can't buy nicotine or even see an R-rated movie until they are 17 years old. This isn't an argument between Democrat and Republican. This is simply common sense, and most Americans agree. The best thing that we can do for our children across this country is to say: You are not ready to make these decisions. Your feelings are very likely going to change. It is proven through the statistics. The statistics show one study from a doctor in Finland who happens to be the leading expert, Dr. Kaltiala, who says that four out of five gender-questioning kids grow up--four out of five stop questioning their gender. They stop those feelings. Twelve percent of boys with gender dysphoria continue it into adulthood, only 12 percent. These are major changes. We already have Federal laws, and that is incredibly important to recognize. The legislation that made it a Federal law against female genital mutilation, which has the same Commerce Clause in the Protect Children's Innocence Act, the bill that we are considering that I have introduced, passed by voice in 2020. That meant that no Member of this body raised up and said that we needed a recorded vote because they wanted to vote ``no.'' It simply passed by voice. We also have so many other laws to protect children from sexual exploitation. This is something that doesn't affect people's sexual identity. It is in no way, shape, or form insulting to anyone who identifies as gay or lesbian or bisexual. This is simply a bill that tells kids, ``Hold on,'' tells parents, ``Hold on,'' before they have double mastectomies, before they are castrated, and before they take drugs that are not FDA approved for the use that they are given, that are chemical castrating drugs. We have to stop. Madam Speaker, I urge the House to vote ``yes'' on the Protect Children's Innocence Act.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Madam Speaker, we already have Federal laws that stop the sexual exploitation of children related to porn and sex crimes against children, and these Federal laws are so important because they protect children all across America. There is historical data that shows that 60 to 90 percent of prepuberty children with gender dysphoria stop identifying as trans once they grow up. In 2022, there is a statistic that says that only 12 percent of boys with gender dysphoria continue it into adulthood. This is a matter of common sense. This is a vote of good versus evil. It is our duty as a governing body, filled with responsible adults, to protect children from making the worst mistake of their lives before they are ever grown up and have the ability to enter into adulthood. Madam Speaker, I urge the House to vote ``yes'' on the Protect Children's Innocence Act and do the right thing for America's children.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Madam Speaker, one of the most serious responsibilities we have as adults, and particularly those of us who are elected and hold power when it comes to legislating and making law, is to protect children. Today, the House is delivering on what the American people voted for. This is the opportunity to vote to end the gender mutilation of children via transgender treatments for children. I introduced this important bill years ago, and it is finally set for a vote in the House today. It will criminalize gender-affirming care on minors, not adults, on minors who have not yet grown up to make adult decisions. It will end gender mutilation and chemical castration of children and imprison offenders for up to 10 years. This is a direct legislative reflection of President Trump's executive order and every single Republican's campaign promise in 2024. It was also one of the top issues across the country. Most Americans agree that kids just need to grow up before they do anything radical like a mastectomy on a 15-year-old girl, castrating themselves through surgery, or even taking dangerous drugs that have lifelong effects. American children are being systematically indoctrinated with perverse gender ideology by teachers, doctors, mental health counselors, and on social media platforms. Autistic children are particularly vulnerable and are three to four times more likely to have gender dysphoria. Joe Biden's former Assistant Secretary of Health, Richard Levine, who identifies himself as Rachel Levine, called for the Federal Government to empower kids to go on puberty blockers and obtain sex-reassignment surgeries. We truly don't know the lifelong effects of puberty blockers, but we do see the lifelong effects of sex-reassignment surgeries. For far too long, children have been sexually exploited under the malicious falsehood of so-called gender-affirming care. Mutilating children's bodies and giving them sterilizing drugs is anything but affirming and anything but care. These types of surgeries and hormone treatments are destroying children's lives all across the country, while this perverted multibillion-dollar industry rakes in profits. Pharmaceutical company Pfizer led the way in hormone production drugs, with revenues up to $74 million from those products in 2022 alone. Total revenues for transgender drugs and surgeries in 2023 were estimated to surpass $4.4 billion, and by 2030, the market is expected to grow to nearly $8 billion. There are for-profit pediatric gender clinics as well as hospitals that receive Federal funding that are engaged in this type of child abuse. One of the Nation's top children's hospitals in the country, Boston Children's Hospital, even released videos that explained its surgeries, promoting sterilization, castration, and mutilation of children to kids and their parents. The hospital had been discovered to have performed gender-affirming chest surgeries on 15-year-old girls-- girls that are not even old enough to get a tattoo, buy nicotine, buy alcohol, and even vote. Jamie Reid, who worked at a gender clinic and directly assisted transitioning 1,500 patients, she says, age 3 to 25 years old over 5 years, publicly came out to discuss the atrocities happening to children at these gender clinics. ``When a female takes testosterone, the profound and permanent effects of the hormone can be seen in a matter of months. Voices drop, beards sprout, body fat is redistributed. Sexual interest explodes, aggression increases, and mood can be unpredictable.'' One of the side effects includes sterility. Can you imagine this happening to a young woman before she is ever even of legal age to be considered an adult? Jamie Reid has full blown come out as a whistleblower on how fraudulent the entire industry is. The clinicians didn't care about the symptoms of the child. If the child believed they were trans, the clinicians took their word for it. If a child believes that they are a unicorn, do adults take their word for it, as well? We have laws that prevent children from being sexually exploited already on the books. As a matter of fact, in 2020, this body passed a law to stop the female genital mutilation of young women all across America. My bill has the exact same Commerce Clause that is in the law preventing FGM.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I am here this morning to urge my colleagues to support the rule which includes H.R. 3492, the Protect Children's Innocence Act. My bill criminalizes the genital mutilation, such as this young lady right here, and chemical castration of children, imprisoning offenders for up to 10 years. For far too long, children have been sexually exploited under the malicious falsehood of so-called gender-affirming care. Mutilating children's bodies and giving them sterilizing drugs is anything but affirming and anything but care, especially given the fact that this is happening in too many cases before these kids are ever old enough to legally vote, legally get a tattoo, ink printed on their own bodies, and make real adult decisions. The same drug that has been used to chemically castrate sex offenders has been given to children who have been manipulated into thinking they were born in the wrong body. Everyone knows that children many times are confused about who they want to be when they grow up or about their identity. The children are not to blame. It is our job as adults to protect these kids and allow them to grow up safely and healthy and not make decisions that last a lifetime, such as this right here that happened to this teenage girl. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' to the rule, and I urge my colleagues to do the most responsible thing any adult can do for a child and protect them while they grow up.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I proudly rise today in a bipartisan effort to release the Epstein files finally after five administrations have covered it up. Earlier today, I attended the press conference where the survivors-- they are not victims--the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse and sex trafficking told their stories. They told stories about how it started back in 1991 and 1996, and they continued on through the decades. They told stories about how they told someone and tried to get help. They told the FBI, and they weren't listened to. They told law enforcement, and no one did anything. These women don't just number a few. These women number around 1,000 women, and they are victims of something that is unthinkable. This should have never, ever happened. This was the biggest fight I think I have seen in Washington, D.C. This is my fifth year here, and this was a fight that we should have never had to wage. It should have been the easiest thing for every single Member of Congress. It should have been the easiest thing for the Speaker of the House. It should have been the easiest thing for the President of the United States to release all the information, every single file, on behalf of these American women. These American women aren't rich and powerful elites. They do not have someone paying for their airline tickets or paying for their trips or paying for their expenses every time they try to do something to get this information out. These are your average Americans. Mr. Speaker, do you want to know what the Epstein files represent, the coverup represents, to average Americans? It represents the failures of the Federal Government in Congress to the American people, and that is what people rose up about in 2024. They wanted and demanded transparency from their government and for Americans; finally, to be put first. Today, with this vote, we are finally putting these victims and these survivors of Jeffrey Epstein first and the cabal of rich and powerful elites that expands not just here in the United States of America but to other countries as well, we are putting them last. That is exactly what Americans want. You see, Mr. Speaker, for far too long, Americans have been put last, and they are sick of it. They are sick and tired of it. This is why they don't trust Congress. This is why they don't trust the government. Here is the problem: All of these women are women who have suffered in shame for years and years and years. These are women who were terrified, women who were intimidated, and women who were threatened just like Virginia Giuffre, and now she is dead. These women should have never faced that for this information to come out. We, especially the four Republican Members of the House of Representatives, should have never faced intimidation and threats for us to get this vote to come to the floor. Never forget there were four: Thomas Massie, myself, Nancy Mace, and Lauren Boebert. We had to sign a discharge petition. We had to fight through intimidation, and we had to endure it for months to push that discharge petition finally to 218 to get this vote to come out. This is what the American people are sick of, and rightfully so. Now where does this go from here? The question will remain: Will the Department of Justice release all the information? Will the judge in New York release the information? Will the CIA release the information? Will foreign governments release their information? Or will this continue after this vote today to be a coverup, a coverup of the rich and powerful elites who bond together in sex and human trafficking abuse and all types of global business that enriches them but never serves Americans? The American people will know, and the victims--actually the survivors--of Jeffrey Epstein will know, because they know the list of names. I remain dedicated to my promise to read those names here on the House floor if those women ever find themselves in a place where it needs to be done.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 270. Stated against:

Ms. GREENE of Georgia

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Madam Chair, I demand a recorded vote.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Madam Chair, the issue here is it is always about another country, and it is always America last. We are $37 trillion in debt. I can tell you right now there is becoming a big difference between how young Americans feel versus how older Americans feel. This body is absolutely tone deaf when it comes to spending and priorities. When young Americans today are hopeless for the future, don't believe that they will be able to afford to buy a home, can't afford the cost of living, but yet here in Congress the debate goes on and on about how much more money we should send to more foreign countries around the world, the United States Congress is absolutely losing the support of the American people. That goes for both political parties. Madam Chair, I urge the support of my amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, not only have I introduced amendments to defund Ukraine, defund $115 million in humanitarian assistance for foreign countries, defund $1 billion from Taiwan, I have also introduced amendments to defund money to Israel, Syria, Iraq, and the border security for Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, and Pakistan, but those amendments were not made in order, so I didn't get to debate those today. The reason why I introduced those amendments is because I believe our funding for our United States military should be for our country only because it is the defense of our country only that should matter, and that is what matters to the American people. They are absolutely fed up. Every single one of my colleagues can go back home to their districts and face their constituents, and their constituents will tell them: We are sick of the foreign wars. We are sick of the foreign aid. That is a matter of fact. I will tell you why. It is because the American Dream has become unattainable today. The median age of first-time home buyers is 38 years old, compared to 29 in the 1980s. The cost of college tuition has increased by about 130 percent in the past two decades. Graduates leave with massive amounts of debt and are unable to find jobs. The youth unemployment rate is at 10.8 percent. The average health insurance premium for a family has risen by 22 percent since 2018 and 47 percent since 2013. This is an America last Congress, and this is every single Congress. As we debate these bills, it is always about sending more money to more foreign countries for their foreign causes because every foreign country has a plea and a request and a reason to ask America to write them checks. Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, I think everyone has to be honest in here and admit to the fact that our United States military has a strong presence in the Indo-Pacific. The United States is not backing down to China. However, we shouldn't have to fund Taiwan's security and military at $1 billion. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, my amendment strikes the funding for Taiwan Security Cooperation Initiative. This amendment would strike $1 billion in military assistance to Taiwan. This funding will be used to provide a wide variety of assistance, including planes, drones, missile defense, munitions, and more. However, this is an increase of $700 million from the fiscal year `25 NDAA, which authorized only $300 million, so this is quite a jump in funding. The entire defense budget of Taiwan is less than $20 billion. We have given Taiwan over $2 billion in funding and munitions over the last 2 years. Increasing foreign aid to Taiwan will only increase their reliance on the U.S. Increasing funding by $700 million to $1 billion, when the interest on our own debt is over our entire military budget, is America last. The United States is $37 trillion in debt, and in fiscal year `24, the government spent over $1.8 trillion more than it took in. The interest alone on our debt has exceeded $1 trillion. We can't afford to fund other countries' militaries and secure other countries' borders. Before we start worrying about Taiwan's borders or Ukraine's borders, we should focus on deporting every single illegal alien who invaded our borders, broke our laws, raped our women and children, and murdered our people. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, $115 million is a lot of money, especially when our interest is bigger than our own military budget. We have a serious crisis right now, and it is our national debt. The American people have been through unbelievable crises: hurricanes, wildfires, every kind of natural disaster you can imagine, but also disasters caused by our own government. Yet, the people in this room are tone deaf, absolutely tone deaf. If it were up to my Democratic colleagues, they would just keep digging the hole of debt and sending all the hard-earned money here in America overseas for every single issue there is. I will reiterate: Americans donate more money to worldwide charities than any other country on Earth. If Americans want to be able to check a box on their IRS tax return that says, ``Here is some extra money I want to send over for humanitarian aid,'' by God, let them do it, but they shouldn't be forced to do it at gunpoint, and this body should not force them to do that. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, we are $37 trillion in debt. Fiscal year 2024 was the first year that the U.S. spent more on interest payments than on national defense. Spending on interest was more than all the money spent on veterans, education, and transportation combined. That is for America, not the rest of the world. Interest costs will keep rising, crowding out other priorities, and not only burden future generations but cripple them. Three hundred Americans die every single day from drug overdoses. In 2024, 17.6 veterans committed suicide every single day, and there were over 30,000 homeless veterans. These are American problems. These are the issues we should be spending Americans' hard-earned tax dollars on instead of shoving them off and just saying we can't wait to give American money to the rest of the world for whatever they need. Yet, we kick Americans right in the face and say: No. No money for you. According to the Department of Education, 85 percent of Black students lack proficiency in mathematics and reading skills. Forty percent of high schools in Baltimore did not have a single student score proficiently in math in 2023, not a single student. But we have to send another $115 million for somebody else's flood or problem or issue because, God forbid, the government not jump in and send money to foreign countries. This is a shame, and this is hurting America. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chairman, my amendment strikes funding for overseas humanitarian disaster and civic aid programs. My amendment strikes $115 million in foreign aid funding to the overseas humanitarian disaster and civic aid programs of the Department of Defense--I am sorry, the War Department. Mr. Chairman, the United States Government is not a charity, and the American people are some of the most generous people in the world, all by themselves, without the government taking their hard-earned tax dollars and sending it to wherever they want. Mr. Chairman, this account funds three different programs. Humanitarian assistance helps nations with disaster preparedness, public health support, and basic infrastructure support. Humanitarian Mine Action Program provides assistance to nations to help them safely eliminate unexploded mines. Disaster relief supports disaster relief in foreign countries. In 2023 and 2024, the Department provided support for responses in Haiti, Turkiye, northern Syria, Philippines, Libya, and Gaza. While we are compassionate to people around the world suffering from national disasters and many other issues, think of our own national disasters and problems that we face here in our own homeland: Hurricane Helene, Hurricane Milton, Lahaina wildfires, L.A. wildfires, Texas flooding, and the opioid epidemic. The drinking water in northwest Georgia is also polluted with forever chemicals. These are the issues that the American people care about. These are the issues that the American people pay their taxes for. Mr. Chair, $115 million shouldn't be sent to go sit in an account somewhere ready to go pay money off to every foreign country and every foreign country's need. We are $37 trillion in debt, and I cannot believe that we can't cut spending here in this body that has created that debt. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chairman, I missed that part in my civics lessons and pretty much every single United States map I have ever seen where Ukraine is the 51st State. In fact, it is not. It is shameful that, in the United States House of Representatives, more United States Members of Congress fight for money and fight for the defense of a foreign country than they actually fight for their own people. I think Members of Congress should have to wear sponsors, like NASCAR race cars have to wear, for which country they represent and which industry that they are shilling for. Mr. Chairman, I urge the adoption of my amendment. No more money to Ukraine. Let's end the war. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chairman, I will push back on what my Republican colleague just said. Ukraine is not our national security interest. Our national debt is a matter of national security for United States of American citizens. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chairman, the American people have war fatigue. They not only have war fatigue, but they are absolutely fed up. They are absolutely fed up with funding foreign wars and defending foreign nations' borders while, here in America, many cities are completely unsafe, and senseless murders go on and on. My amendment would reorient defense policies and priorities to America only by prohibiting all assistance to Ukraine. This lines up completely with what Trump's administration has asked for. For some reason, Congress has decided that they want to keep funding the war and funding the killing in Ukraine. To date, U.S. taxpayers have provided over $175 billion in assistance to Ukraine, including direct military aid, funding for their government, and, essentially, funding for their entire economy. Mr. Chair, this was while American businesses were shut down during COVID lockdowns and our border was completely overrun. Everyone needs to understand that it wasn't Putin who was killing Americans, but it was the cartels killing Americans and insane murderers and criminals on our own city streets, in our own country. I remind everyone that the American people are broke, and the people in this room are responsible for that on both sides of the aisle. Mr. Chairman, $37 trillion in debt is no joke. I say that on behalf of my children's generation, and they are all in their twenties. I want to know: How deep are we going to continue digging the grave to bury our children and our grandchildren? I will have no part of it. I reserve the balance of my time.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, my amendment prohibits the assistance to Ukraine in the NDAA. This bill provides approximately $700 million in funding for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative over fiscal year 2026 and 2027 for training, equipment, lethal assistance, supplies and services, and intelligence support to the military and national security forces of Ukraine. The administration has even raised strong objections against extending the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative and authorizing additional funding for it, yet somehow, the NDAA contains $700 million. The administration said--and this comes from a letter from the office of the OMB--the administration ``strongly objects'' to sections 1223 and 1227, as these provisions extend the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative and authorizes additional funding. ``Similarly, the administration objects to section 1224, which requires the creation of a depot-level maintenance plan in conjunction with the Ukrainian Government. Furthermore, the administration strongly objects to section 1228, which usurps the administration's authority to dictate the terms of its intelligence support to the Ukrainian Government. These four provisions do not advance the administration's objective to end the conflict in Ukraine.'' That is the key point. The administration wants to end the conflict in Ukraine. Ukraine is not a NATO member nation. We are not contractually bound to provide their protection. Need I remind everyone here that we are $37 trillion in debt--$37 trillion. We should not have to be sending more American tax dollars over to defend Ukraine and the people of Ukraine when Ukrainians themselves are coming to our country and getting murdered on subway trains. Iryna Zarutska was brutally murdered by an American man as she was riding on a subway train, yet we are sending $700 million more to Ukraine? The American people would like that $700 million spent here to keep people safe and stop senseless, insane murders. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, my Democratic colleague across the aisle just said that it is about the science. Where have we heard that one before? I think everyone in the country remembers the past few years of forced, mandated COVID vaccines. When it becomes about the science and not about feeding our men and women in the military good, cultivated, real meat, then it is a serious problem. Being competitive with China, according to the Democrats, means being just like China, a Communist country that America should never be like at all. Mr. Chairman, I will finish with this: When Democrats are saying that they won't know the difference when they are being fed fake meat versus real meat and they will love it, I think that is the most terrifying thing we can hear. Mr. Chairman, I urge the adoption of this amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, it is so interesting to listen to my Democratic colleague across the aisle talk about China and how China made cultivated meat a national priority, and so we should, too. That is pretty shocking. Don't forget, Mr. Chair, that the COVID virus was made in Wuhan, China, and released upon the world. Look at the consequences of that. Never forget it was the Democrats who were all about forcing poisonous vaccines into people's bodies against their will. We saw the devastating impacts of that on many military members: myocarditis, nerve conditions, heart problems, heart attacks, and many reported issues not just on the military but the American people. As a matter of fact, there are vaccine injuries and deaths that have not been investigated to this day. Mr. Chair, now, Democrats want to continue to force our great men and women in the military to eat fake, lab-grown meat? That is repulsive and disgusting. I can tell you right now, Mr. Chair, I, along with my Republican colleagues, want to feed our great men and women in the military ribeyes, those that are grown right here on good old USA farms. I think our men and women in the military, in order to quote my colleague across the aisle, to have readiness, to be ready and prepared for war, they need to be as healthy and fit as possible. I would argue that lab-grown, disgusting, fake meat is not going to make them ready. It is not going to make them healthy. It is not going to make them fit. It is not going to get them the best possible shape they can be in to go to war. God forbid they go to war. I don't want to see them go to war either. They talk about this fake meat being a tool or an option to keep them better supplied. I think it is repulsive. I think it is an insult. I can't imagine anyone signing up for the military saying: I can't wait to eat a big old portion of nasty, lab-grown, fake meat. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, I rise today on behalf of my friend and colleague, Congressman Warren Davidson from Ohio, who is a proud Army Ranger. I am offering his amendment to prohibit the Department of War from researching or procuring lab-grown meat. This amendment prohibits the Department of War funding from being used on the research, production, advancement, or enhancement of cell- cultured meat which is fake meat. It is not even real meat. Over the years, climate activists have tried to push experimental food alternatives on the American public. The latest product they are peddling to us is cell-cultured fake meat. What is worse is they have been trying to push this experimental product on our U.S. servicemembers like they are lab rats. This is all in an attempt to put America's ranchers and farmers out of business. Our great men and women in our military are not lab rats, Mr. Chair. In 2024, the Department of Defense announced up to $500 million in grant funding for the development of lab-grown meat products. In case anyone at home is wondering if this is real, yes, it was real, and it happened. Last year, small farms and mom-and-pop operations across the country raised their voices in outrage against this ill-considered initiative. We won and got the DOD to back off on trying to put our farmers out of business while trying to feed our soldiers fake, poisonous garbage. It is now time to codify this win into law, and it is important to do so with the fiscal year '26 NDAA. That is why this amendment is so important. A product this experimental has many unresolved safety and environmental concerns. These products are not yet approved for retail sale in grocery stores. It should not be tested on our brave servicemembers who put their lives at stake for this country. Mr. Chair, I urge the adoption of this amendment, and I reserve the balance of my time.

Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, as the designee of Mr. Davidson, I rise to speak in support of the amendment.