Wildlife Innovation and Longevity Driver Reauthorization Act

Floor Speech

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Mr. BERGMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2025. I thank Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Smith for their leadership in bringing this critical piece of bipartisan legislation for the national security of our Nation to the floor for the 64th consecutive year.

This bill continues to provide resources and capabilities to counter our Nation's number one threat, China.

The bill accomplishes this by ensuring the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, and our Special Operations Forces have the tools required to execute the Department's efforts in strategic competition and in countering malign Chinese actions.

This NDAA requires the Secretary of Defense to develop a methodology that ensures strategic competition is part of force sizing analysis, enhances intelligence and counterintelligence capabilities, requires more frequent biodefense posture reviews to ensure we can defeat and prevent biothreats, and authorizes the Taiwan Security Cooperation Initiative to enable Taiwan to maintain self-defense capabilities.

Mr. Speaker, this is a critically important bill, and I urge all my colleagues to support it.

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