I am not trying to cut anybody's corner here, but we are trying to run this in a more sustainable, defensible way.

The Biden administration, as we were negotiating the Camp Lejeune Act and the PACT Act, encouraged this Committee to adopt caps.

There have been reports of 40, 50, 60 percent contingency fees, which is just outrageous.

I certainly hope the Congress can fix it.

I appreciated the fact that you followed through on your commitment from this last budget hearing, that you were going to come to Alaska.

the more that this gets delayed without fixing the attorney fee cap issue, the more Marine Corps families and Marines who we are trying to help are going to not get the justice that they deserve.

There is one facility there with limited numbers of beds, and you just don't, literally, need the roof falling in.

I think we would agree that that is not right, that is not reasonable.

I find it inexcusable and astonishing that Hawaii and Alaska would not be included, particularly, in a study for geothermal.

I have proposed the creation of an Off-Road Veterans Outreach Program, some support funding to get out, and then get those vets who can't drive, to a facility, so that they can get their questions answered.

I think you recognize that we don't have much of a contingency plan there in Alaska. This is it.

And that is exciting and it is good news and that was in a year--the promise that we are going to see this activity in the country is exactly what we had all hoped for.

I expressed my disappointment that there was a DOE loan guarantee for a processing plant in Louisiana.

And that is exciting and it is good news and that was in a year--the promise that we are going to see this activity in the country is exactly what we had all hoped for.

I expressed my disappointment that there was a DOE loan guarantee for a processing plant in Louisiana.

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