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

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

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

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

We are in a race with climate change.

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?

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 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.

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.

we have to talk about permitting reform in a reasonable period of time to get things done.

I am going to be submitting several amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act on the Armed Services Committee.

Women veterans are still reporting to me that they do not feel fully empowered in the VA system.

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

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.

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.

I am going to be submitting several amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act on the Armed Services Committee.