National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024

Floor Speech

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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