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

Actually, we should have been making this transition years ago, and we are trying to make it in a hurry because we are in a crisis situation.

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

And yet the President's budget request cuts the Guard and Reserve budget by $3 billion compared to fiscal year 2023 enacted levels, impeding both modernization and readiness.

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…

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.

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

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.

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

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

Actually, we should have been making this transition years ago, and we are trying to make it in a hurry because we are in a crisis situation.

And yet the President's budget request cuts the Guard and Reserve budget by $3 billion compared to fiscal year 2023 enacted levels, impeding both modernization and readiness.

The citizens Soldiers of the Guard and Reserve serve in the proud tradition of the Minutemen who fought for the very founding of our country.

What was most disturbing to me was when I learned through some of the court filings that there was an Air Force memorandum that indicated that he had been repeatedly warned.

The need to properly resource ready, well-equipped, and integrated Guard and Reserve components could not be more clear.

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

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