I just think that it's a really important part of our workforce that we need to continue to see thrive and grow.

I have some of that legislation myself I have sponsored.

Pilots can't fly without the air traffic controllers managing those runways, right, and all the other things that they look at in the skies.

And it is also true what you said earlier that this budget proposed by this administration looks at also an additional deficit reduction of $3 trillion over 10 years?

Securing the health care and public health sector we know is critical to protecting our national security.

Workforce attrition, there is lengthy training periods, there is forced early retirement, coupled with the stop and go funding we have had with sequestration, it really had a lasting negative effect on our air traffic control workforce.

that debt was incurred by both previous Republican and Democratic administrations; correct?

Securing the health care and public health sector we know is critical to protecting our national security.

I have introduced a bill with Marsha Blackburn, the Cyber Ready Workforce Act, to surge up capacity with the Department of Labor (DOL) to award grants to increase access to things like a registered apprenticeship program.

I want to talk a little bit about military to commercial aviation pipeline.

the Inflation Reduction Act and the work that we have been doing to lead us into this clean energy future requires a bridge to get us there.

Over the past three years, the health care data breaches have doubled.

that debt was incurred by both previous Republican and Democratic administrations; correct?

Increasing the ability for Federal loans for pilots, not only, you know, for everybody to get a more diverse workforce, allow people that traditionally wouldn't be able to get into the workforce ability to get funding is essential.

the Inflation Reduction Act and the work that we have been doing to lead us into this clean energy future requires a bridge to get us there.

Is it true that the Federal deficit has been reduced by over $1.7 trillion just in the last 2 years?

the guidance in general that you have talked about?

the guidance in general that you have talked about?