We're doing a good job on that, and you talked a little bit about the impact on operations in Hampton Roads when you have the main road serving the biggest and most important naval base in the world, more and more likely to flood just…

Thanks, Chairman Sanders, thanks to the panel.

I appreciate your service, your testimony, and thanks Mr. Chairman.

We're never going to get the debt under control unless you not only look at the spending side but the revenue side.

Other nations do that and they have much better health outcome than we do.

I'm going to be in Appalachian, Virginia tomorrow visiting the Allegheny Highlands Dental Center.

Your confirmation gives those candidates a different level of standing. They show up with a letter from the President that they present to the head of state, gives them a different level of understanding.

We need our diplomats out and development experts out in the field showing up, actively engaged, representing the United States.

It seems like a big issue to me.

Holding up a nominee, particularly a career nominee for reasons unrelated to that individual's qualifications is something that needs to end.

We're doing a good job on that, and you talked a little bit about the impact on operations in Hampton Roads when you have the main road serving the biggest and most important naval base in the world, more and more likely to flood just…

I want to thank you for your work on Remote Access Medical.

if we mattered to you, you would have someone here, right?

We had no ambassador in country.

Is there not also kind of an informal power that comes in the reverse if you do not have a confirmed nominee? The country believes, wow, we must not be that important in the United States.

if somebody on the Senate is holding you up, and it is secret, you do not even have the ability to...

Thank you, Chairman Whitehouse, and to my colleagues and those attending, it is a pleasure to have Rick Dwyer here today.

Virginia has become a real leader in clean energy.