the backlog is not delays because of environmental permits, NEPA processing, or lawsuits, just because we have not adequately funded these projects and because of staff constraints.

I think this is a place that warrants additional focus, and particularly the idea of making sure that families can keep their base properties as well as part of the process of resolving some of these conflicts.

we all recognize how many acres of forest need to be treated right now, both with hazardous fuels and more broadly towards a goal of restoration.

I am here as a daughter, niece, and granddaughter of Alzheimer's.

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I ask the Committee and other Members of Congress to support this bill to ensure current and future research includes increased numbers of Blacks, Hispanics, Asian and Native Americans in clinical trials.

Senators Ben Ray Lujan and Collins introduced the bipartisan Equity in Neuroscience and Alzheimer's Clinical Trials (ENACT) Act.

DOD's Building Code, the Unified Facilities Criteria or UFC needs to be updated regularly to ensure that we're not building facilities vulnerable to severe weather events.

I think we've overlooked this for too long and we have to get into integrating engineering with nature upfront at the beginning.

I think you referred to it as green engineering, but it's often natural systems as infrastructure.

I think the real integrating factor is innovative and powered and creative leadership at the garrison level.

I did not know the role of DOE in sort of proving out those technologies.

I think it's something to be proud of that our services are helping to, you know, make that possible.

We're going to wrap here in just a few minutes, but I do want to follow up on the question that Senator Boozman raised about sort of life cycle costs versus upfront costs and the relationship of that to building codes.

I think it's an important question to ask.

I am a proud cosponsor of the Family Act and the Healthy Families Act, which together create a national paid leave program.

as we talk about replacing infrastructure, there are communities who have never had that infrastructure in the first place.

We need a national policy now not only to close the wage gap, but to boost our economy and recover from this pandemic.