Anna Luna

Mrs. LUNA

Mrs. LUNA. Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

Mrs. LUNA. Madam Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume. The Army Corps has halted many beach renourishment projects in Florida. It is now affecting nine counties. Ultimately, in our eyes, this 1996 policy is completely out of date and needs to be defunded. Obviously we have massive concerns, to include habitat for endangered species in my community; a number of private homeowners that will have their properties destroyed; and, in addition to that, it is going to financially impact our community, as much of our income for that area depends on travel as well as our beaches. I am asking for support for this amendment. I think that it is something that would benefit not just my constituents, but many of those in Florida. Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

Mrs. LUNA

Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Chair, I rise to offer amendment No. 1 as the designee of Mr. Williams of New York.

Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Chairman, to protect American interest, safety, and intellectual property, this amendment will end the corrupt practice of sending taxpayer dollars to the Chinese Communist Party. Our hard-earned money is going to Chinese research, infrastructure, and education, and these are the only destinations that we currently know about. American dollars are lost with no recuperation or retaliation. Mr. Chairman, I ask my colleagues across the aisle to support this commonsense amendment and support Mr. Williams' legislation. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mrs. LUNA. Madam Chair, Communism, as well as any country that embraces that ideology, is a cancer upon this world and sometimes a guillotine is the only solution. Madam Chair, I urge my colleagues across the aisle to support this incredible piece of legislation, and if you don't, that is on you. Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

Mrs. LUNA. Madam Chair, I want to start out by saying that I am a United States Air Force veteran and a woman who has been elected to Congress while pregnant who supports this because of the fact that not only does it completely attack our ability to be military ready, but when you are advocating for a servicemember to have a child ripped from their womb, they can't deploy. To say that this is constitutional in their argument and to say that Republicans are somehow attacking women in service because we support this is not only a lie, but it completely just destroys everything that this military stands for. Not only are there religious objections to taxpayers funding this type of stuff, but to say as a military servicemember that you would be somehow hurting someone's rights in the military because you stand with life is pretty bizarre to me.

Mrs. LUNA

Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Chair, I would just like to remind people that whether you are White, Black, Brown, we all bleed the same, so to have this completely divisive ideology being pushed, to have Members from across the aisle making it about race when some of these Members have not even served, it is completely to me, not only a foreign ideology, but I would like to remind people when you are getting shot at, okay, when my husband was shot in Afghanistan, do you think he was sitting there asking what color the person that was evacuating him was? Do you think he was sitting there wondering about diversity, equity, and inclusion? No. The only thing he cared about was making sure that someone who was evacuating him knew how to do their job. That is what the military needs to be focusing on. So to have it about race just goes to show that maybe more Members, maybe more Members across the aisle need to be serving in our military because that is not something that we focus on. What we focus on is mission readiness. That is what it is all about. I don't care if you guys think that I am racist. I am a minority woman. Maybe I am the wrong color of minority for you, but I am a minority woman. I support this for those reasons because I have lost friends.

Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Chair, I couldn't help but pull out my pocket Constitution, and I couldn't seem to find anywhere in here where it says we need to fund programs for humanitarian aid for women and children in Afghanistan. I just wanted to point that out.

Mrs. LUNA

Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, Americans do not trust Congress. From the highest levels of office, an elected Member of this body enabled the fraudulent spending of $32 million out of the pockets of our American people and threw it down the drain to knowingly chase ghosts, all for political gain. This man occupied a position of the highest trust and authority. As Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Schiff launched an all-out political campaign built on baseless distortions against a sitting U.S. President at the expense of every single citizen in this country and the honor of the House of Representatives. With access to sensitive information unavailable to most Members of Congress, and certainly not accessible to the American people, Representative Schiff abused his privileges, claiming to know the truth, while leaving Americans in the dark about this web of lies. These were lies so severe that they altered the course of the country forever: the lie that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 Presidential election revealed to be completely false by numerous investigations, including the Durham report; the lie that the Steele dossier--a folder of falsified and since completely debunked collusion accusations funded by the Democratic Party--had any shred of credibility, yet Representative Schiff read it into the Congressional Record as fact; the lies concocted and compiled in a false memo that was used to lie to the FISA court, to precipitate domestic spying on U.S. citizen, Carter Page, violating American civil liberties. Not only was this an egregious abuse of Representative Schiff's privileged access to classified information, but this memo was littered with 17 major mistakes and omissions. The groundless memo violated Carter Page's civil liberties, publicly assassinated his character, and subjected him to multiple, abusive, unlawful investigations. Representative Schiff exploited his position as Chair of the Intel Committee at every opportunity possible, threatening national security, undermining our duly-elected President, and bringing dishonor upon the institution. Perhaps most unforgivable, Representative Schiff ripped apart American families across the country with repeated false narratives. His own political good was served by permanently destroying family relationships and sowing lasting division across our land, which we live with every single day. The perpetrators of this web of deceit became mainstays on cable news, waking up every morning with one goal: to lie, lie, lie to the American people that there was direct evidence of a Russia collusion. Despite transcripts from Representative Schiff's investigation showing that the Director of National Intelligence, former Obama Attorney General, former Deputy Attorney General, and FBI Director, to name a few, went on record telling Representative Schiff's committee that there was no direct evidence for his criminal conspiracy, yet to this day, Representative Schiff actively fundraises off of his exploitation of Americans, as if robbing them from the truth and $32 million in taxpayer dollars is not enough. Can anyone in this Chamber comprehend this list of crimes and yet somehow believe there should not be an answer for it? This is not a partisan act. This is not a conservative versus liberal vote. This is a clear vote between right and wrong, and I urge my colleagues to do the right thing. I will end with repeating what I started with. The American people do not trust Congress. The cyclical pattern of lies has worn down the credibility of every institution and every official in the United States Government. You see it. I see it. If we run away from this opportunity to hold this man accountable, there is only one fault and that is of ourselves. We will betray the people who trusted us and sent us here to do the right thing. We will be responsible for the end of any shred of justice in this body. We will reject the duty that we swore an oath to protect upon taking office. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Ogles).

Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I call up the privileged resolution noticed earlier today.

Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 1 minute to the gentlewoman.

Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Illinois (Mrs. Miller).

Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Langworthy).

Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Norman).

Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 2 minutes to the gentleman from South Carolina.

Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Good).

Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. McClintock).

Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Colorado (Mrs. Boebert).

Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Colorado.

Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Georgia (Ms. Greene).

Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Mills).

Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Wyoming (Ms. Hageman).

Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.