I have introduced a bill with Marsha Blackburn, the Cyber Ready Workforce Act, to surge up capacity with the Department of Labor (DOL) to award grants to increase access to things like a registered apprenticeship program.

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.

Securing the health care and public health sector we know is critical to protecting our national security.

the guidance in general that you have talked about?

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

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?

I have introduced a bill with Marsha Blackburn, the Cyber Ready Workforce Act, to surge up capacity with the Department of Labor (DOL) to award grants to increase access to things like a registered apprenticeship program.

that debt was incurred by both previous Republican and Democratic administrations; correct?

I just think that it's a really important part of our workforce that we need to continue to see thrive and grow.

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.

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

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.

I did have a bill last year to strengthen medical device cybersecurity, the updated the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidance, and it was included in last year's FDA package and became law as part of the omnibus.

that debt was incurred by both previous Republican and Democratic administrations; correct?

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?

Securing the health care and public health sector we know is critical to protecting our national security.

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.

I have some of that legislation myself I have sponsored.