And, to me, it is so important that we counter the brainwashing messages that are utterly bizarre.

It seems illogical to me and many of my constituents in the reverse of reality.

Transitioning from the military is a defining moment in all of our servicemembers' lives.

And I recognize there are other challenges beyond maybe the college-readiness which may impact our graduation rates at the colleges, but, specifically, because we don't fund remediation, remedial education, whether it is a semester, a year…

So you are saying that up to 50 percent of our veterans who actually have--are interested in seeking higher education--we are not even talking about those veterans who may have been maybe----

I share your concern about trying to bring some of these job resources up to the front.

Is that purpose purely political and partisan?

It benefits no one to have so many people living in abject poverty. That's why I believe we must renew the trade preference program for Haiti.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Ambassador, just so you hear from--all the way from the West Coast to the East Coast about the West Coast port situation, even us in North Carolina are impacted by this.

If you look at Fannie, this is an organization that is connected to our Federal Government, was created by our Federal Government.

I look forward to your Chairing this Subcommittee and also to the gentleman from Illinois, Mr. Lipinski, continuing to be the Ranking Member of this Subcommittee.

Protecting America's cyber-systems is critical to our economic and national security.

Don't you think it is appropriate, sir, that Fannie and Freddie, especially organizations of this size that are backstopped by the taxpayers, also ought to live by the same rules as our nongovernment financial institutions when it comes to…

I hope that one day we can get the government out of the homeowner business and get it back in the private sector where it belongs.

And so, hopefully, we tried to explore about a year ago a way to sort of combine these programs to just make it more efficient and more helpful to the American people.

I might add that we have reached a point, unfortunately, in America today where more people are dying from drug overdoses than they--from prescription drug overdose than they are from automobile accidents.

I also look forward to today's hearing on cyber threats, a topic that continues to grow in importance.

America is vulnerable and there is an increasing need for technically-trained cybersecurity experts to identify and defend against cyber-attacks.