I ask unanimous consent to speak in morning business for no more than 7 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I rise with sorrow and regret to pay tribute to SFC Matthew McClintock. Sergeant McClintock was a native of my home State of New Mexico. He died on January 5 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, from injuries sustained from small arms fire…

Mr. Chairman, thanks for exposing these issues.

We need more resources for the agency to recruit and retain competent and committed staff.

When Senator Dorgan was our chairman, we highlighted this.

I have introduced a bill with Senator Murkowski that would make the IHS Health Professions Awards Program exempt from a Federal income tax requirement.

Well, isn't it true that in all of the States' departments of health you have got a team of epidemiologists whose job it is when anyone identifies any issues of this nature, that it is more like a SWAT team.

I am pleased that the IHS officials from Rockville recently visited the NCI Detox Center which is expected to run out of funding at the end of next month.

When critical public health facilities close, people are going to die. That is what is going to happen.

I am a big supporter of telehealth and many of the other strategies you mentioned.

So how do you rebut that this was purposeful then in nature, given that those protocols that you are familiar with as someone new and I'm familiar with.

It is intolerable that any IHS emergency facility close for any amount of time.

In fact, the Double Up Program is very successful in New Mexico. We are seeing more low-income families being able to purchase fruits and vegetables.

Given that my state is still one of the hungriest states in the country, New Mexico, it is great to hear about the kinds of ideas and incentives that allow you to do more with what you have, and making it as healthy as possible.

I think these kinds of incentives are especially important for poor states like New Mexico, and any other areas in the country that have high rates of food insecurity, poverty, obesity, and other diet related illnesses.

I ask unanimous consent that Jack Gardner, a member of my staff, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of the 114th Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I wish to echo the comments Senator Murkowski made in terms of the new pages. We welcome all of you. We are excited about having you here. It is a big change to go from the previous pages to the new pages. We are excited about how things…

The Air Force has expressed its support for concepts such as 'disaggregation' and 'rapid reconstitution' that require new, more flexible, launch architectures.