If we are serious about this, I do agree we need to do a better job bringing lifesaving drugs here.

Thank you, Chairman Peters, Ranking Member Paul, and thank all of you for being here today and your testimony because this hearing and finding solutions not only matters to patients, to ourselves, to our own budgets, people's kitchen-table…

At the end of the day, it is about the health of the ones we love, the availability, the accessibility, the affordability, and we need to bring that back here.

Well, when it comes to safety, we should be investing in that.

I have long been a supporter of Medicare Advantage.

Seniors in my State rely on Medicare Advantage to access affordable, high-quality health care.

Increasing the ability for Federal loans for pilots, not only, you know, for everybody to get a more diverse workforce, allow people that traditionally wouldn't be able to get into the workforce ability to get funding is essential.

the Inflation Reduction Act and the work that we have been doing to lead us into this clean energy future requires a bridge to get us there.

the Inflation Reduction Act and the work that we have been doing to lead us into this clean energy future requires a bridge to get us there.

the guidance in general that you have talked about?

Workforce attrition, there is lengthy training periods, there is forced early retirement, coupled with the stop and go funding we have had with sequestration, it really had a lasting negative effect on our air traffic control workforce.

And it is also true what you said earlier that this budget proposed by this administration looks at also an additional deficit reduction of $3 trillion over 10 years?

Pilots can't fly without the air traffic controllers managing those runways, right, and all the other things that they look at in the skies.

Workforce attrition, there is lengthy training periods, there is forced early retirement, coupled with the stop and go funding we have had with sequestration, it really had a lasting negative effect on our air traffic control workforce.

Is it true that the Federal deficit has been reduced by over $1.7 trillion just in the last 2 years?

I want to talk a little bit about military to commercial aviation pipeline.

I have some of that legislation myself I have sponsored.

And it is also true what you said earlier that this budget proposed by this administration looks at also an additional deficit reduction of $3 trillion over 10 years?