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As the mother of seven children, I can assure you that only women can get pregnant.

Biologically and genetically, do you agree that women have XX chromosomes, and men have XY chromosomes?

What is a woman? Can you define the word?

One of the gaps that we have in our healthcare coverage is people who may be changing jobs.

If there is ever a time when that initiative needs to be restarted or it needs to be worked on, I would encourage you to do it now because it is now more necessary than ever before.

How much of the current $167.5 million in this year's budget goes to local communities and grants to State and local communities in both the arts and humanities?

I have always found it kind of interesting that our committee, even when I was chair and even before that, we looked at the Arts and Humanities Councils, and we give them the same appropriation.

If you are going to reach your climate goals, and renewable energy, and those types of things, you can't outstrip our ability to deliver the critical minerals that are necessary in batteries, in solar, in other things, and for our defense…

I look forward to the day when we can actually sit down and talk person-to-person and meet face-to-face and discuss some of these issues.

Thank you, Chairwoman Pingree, and thanks for this hearing.

The staffing shortage has been an issue across the West, and it has inhibited us from meeting some public lands challenges with the urgency they deserve.

But basically, we can put all the money into a program in the world. If we don't have the personnel to carry out the projects and so forth that is necessary, it doesn't really do any good.

We can't wait two decades. That is somebody is born and they become an adult before we can improve their school, that is just too long.

I appreciate all the work that you all do and for being here to testify before this committee today.

One thing I wanted to follow up on what Representative Simpson said about the ability to have advanced appropriations versus mandatory funding.

I am more than willing, and I know members of this committee are also, to figure out how we get to the level that we ought to be at so that there is not disparity between Indian Health Services and other health services delivered by the…

If it was mandatory, you would pretty much know what it is going to be the next year.

The Indian Health Service has been underfunded for years, and we have tried to increase it and so forth.