[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 6 (Thursday, January 11, 2024)]
[House]
[Pages H87-H88]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 QUESTIONING DIVERSITY IN THE MILITARY

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, earlier today we had a subcommittee 
hearing in the Oversight Committee regarding foreign affairs, the 
border, and the military. We had an interesting topic that the press 
ought to follow up on, and that is the progressive march through our 
military.
  It can be kind of summarized as an obsession with race in our 
military, an obsession with dividing people, and it was also summed up 
by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Charles Q. Brown, Jr., 
who believes we ought to cut the number of White officers in the 
military to 42 percent from where it is now at over 60 percent.
  The supposed reason for this is diversity, which I think has an 
entirely racist connotation itself. We ought to be spending more time 
wondering what exactly do these people mean by people from different 
ethnic backgrounds going back generations will add something to a unit 
if we pick them by where they are from. If I have one of my four 
grandparents from Mexico, how do I carry a different viewpoint toward 
being in the military or being at an engineering firm or being at a law 
firm.
  The press has to ask these diversity experts to give us examples of 
how you

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improve the makeup of a decision by having people who are one-quarter 
from different parts of the world.

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