It is penny-wise and pound-foolish.

Because every day you can keep a veteran in their home they are happier and the system is saving money.

How do we get there, and are we in the process of getting there setting unrealistic standards that will in fact lead to nursing home closures?

On January 5th, 2021, not January 6th, but January 5th, the Congress passed a bill requiring reimbursement for domiciliary care.

We are not serving veterans if a home closes because they cannot meet the staffing standards because they cannot find the people. Let us get real here.

We should start with the programs to build the staff and maintain the staff that we have, then talk about increasing.

We have got enormous staffing problems, and to say you have got to have a certain--it seems to me that opens up liability questions.

Well, we have got to make decisions here as to--this hearing is about delaying the retirement. I want to know how long and how that relates to the rest of the risk.

The other point I want to make, Mr. Chairman, we had a very informative hearing just before the break about small modular reactors, and this country is falling behind in that technology.

we are overly dependent upon China for lithium, which is an essential part of EV batteries.

The American Society of Civil Engineers identify severe weather as the predominant cause of customer outage.

shortly, the Senate will consider the debt ceiling package that passed the House last night by a strong vote. I commend the Speaker for his hard work and his negotiations to prevent what would be a disastrous default, with catastrophic…

FERC should have more responsibility in terms of gas pipelines and reliability and cyber protection.

It's not synthetic dispatchability. It is dispatchability. You have batteries plus renewables. That is a baseload plant.

we really have to talk about being able to construct new transmission.

Should new aircraft be fielded in a manner that is proportional to the Guard's operational contributions?

FERC should have more responsibility in terms of gas pipelines and reliability and cyber protection.

we really have to talk about being able to construct new transmission.