These days you cannot turn on your television without hearing about the very dangerous world we live in today.

Here in the United States, this past weekend, the Chelsea neighborhood in New York City was rattled by a bomb that sent 29 people to the hospital and undetonated bombs were found by a train stop in New Jersey.

A young adult of Afghan descent was arrested for this terrorist act as of writing. He was captured carrying a journal praising Osama bin Laden and fantasizing about Jihad. It is unclear how his travels to Afghanistan and Pakistan went unnoticed by intelligence and law enforcement officials.

Across the globe, there is unrest in Syria, a continued situation in Ukraine and Kim Jong-un in North Korea testing both nuclear weapons and his neighbors.

As a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee, I attended a Full Committee Hearing this week titled, “Stopping the Next Attack: How to Keep Our City Streets from Becoming the Battleground” and asked state and local law enforcement officers what tools they need to combat the rise of home-grown radical Islamic terrorists. I’m glad that law enforcement officers from across the country had an opportunity to make the case for what they need on the front-lines against terrorism in the United States.

And as Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Strategic Forces subcommittee and a conferee for the 55th consecutive NDAA, we’ve been working through differences in the House and Senate-passed versions over the past few weeks.

It has become abundantly clear that now more than ever we must ensure our men and women in uniform have all of the tools needed to combat the variety of threats we as a country face from the brutal, but sophisticated ISIS to the next generation threats of China and Russia.

Our warfighters must be focused on these fights, not the budget fights in Washington. As a member of the conference committee I’m doing everything I can to make sure they have those resources. I will always put the needs of our brave service members first.

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