I just want to commend to you, S. 3656, just recently introduced by myself and Senator Ernst, that asks the Department of Energy to help us, particularly with the Veteran's Administration and the Department of Defense, in terms of big data…

I think Maine is second to Minnesota in voting percentage and I think it has to do with states with large numbers of lakes, maybe.

I think that's an issue we need to pursue.

Several States are, however, making significant progress in reforming their guardianship procedures.

Many of these recommendations are reflected in legislation that the Ranking Member, Senator Casey, and I have authored, called the 'Guardianship Accountability Act.'

Protecting older Americans from financial fraud and exploitation has long been one of my top priorities as Chairman of this Committee.

The Guardianship Accountability Act that Senator Casey and I introduced this morning would further support guardianship reform.

I want to thank our witnesses for your contribution to this important discussion about what States are doing to better protect those placed under guardianship arrangements.

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We should list interest rates as a strategic risk, because it won't be long before interest on the debt will exceed defense expenditures.

It would be helpful, I think, if you guys could quantify that to some extent.

I hope that one of the requirements for all these new platforms is that they be easily modifiable.

I would appreciate it if you could supply for the Committee by class of ships what percentage of the fleet of that class is available at any given moment?

Why that approach? I mean, you are having five yards, highly qualified, a lot of work, a lot of intellectual input, why not some kind of division of those--of that buy in order, again, to get back to the question we were discussing about…

I hope that is in the plan.

Are they being smarter than we are in their expenditures?