When I do visit all 92 counties in our State, by far the issue I hear even above and beyond rural broadband, affordable housing, would be workforce.

A lot of times things we do here are well-intended, but you cannot do it by borrowing from future generations.

Spending policies, I think, have exacerbated an already unaffordable housing market.

We are going to have to--you know, STEM degrees are under produced in Indiana, for instance, and we need more of them to fill that high demand, very high pay niche.

Under the Biden Administration, Americans are less able to afford a home than practically any other time in our history.

I think that is the wrong way to accomplish maybe a goal that is noble to help those that need help affording a place to live, but not like that.

As the chairman last Congress of Technology Modernization Subcommittee, and as ranking member of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee this Congress, I have seen how large an impact contracting has on the VA.

I challenge employers throughout the country to make sure to take that into consideration.

They are going to make more money in many cases than most four-year degrees would produce, and they are going to have a job from the day they get their diploma.

Federal Government, I think too, can help generally on the main drivers of an economy that folks are wondering what do we have, by not spending and borrowing more, because you don't need a macroeconomics degree, that creates inflation.

Are you meeting your race-based composition goals at West Point?

The goals that we have are application goals.

Indiana was settled by men and women who left the safety of their homes, they headed westward, and they crossed the Appalachian Mountains into the wilderness and the unknown. They were willing to endure hardship, to risk danger in search…

I think you owe it to the committee to tell us how much, what do you think the difference would be?

If Congress nominates candidates to the academies, why, why do we have to take race into consideration at all?

Those goals are established based on the composition of our Army officer corps.

I still urge you as leaders of these academies to consider that much of the DEI and inclusivity training not only doesn't work to decrease bias, but it is actually the weaponization of one ideological position, identity over all else.

I am not sure that right now what we are teaching our cadets and mids always, always does that.