The fact of the matter is the Loan Program Office in ARPA-E has been successful and they still are successful, important programs.

Does that ever come into a decision or should it come in to the decision-making process?

Well, if it was made to handle nuclear it should be able to handle about anything.

Every time they come----

We don't have any nuclear power stations in West Virginia and we have no nuclear sites for disposal either.

I think one thing that was a great thing that we did in the last WRDA bill, I think it was the WRDA bill, when the revenue from diesel fuel went up and Congress increased that tax from 20 cents a gallon to 29 cents a gallon.

I can count on one hand how many people have come in my office and said we will help pay for this.

I don't think that's just a throwaway line.

You know about opioid addiction in my State, in West Virginia, but also throughout the entire veterans' community.

We are asking the money to flow not based on population but based on need, where the greatest occurrences are.

I cannot even fathom how any veteran should ever not have a roof over their head.

Female veterans homelessness is up 7 percent.

We have had a 46 percent reduction in homeless veterans. We still have 40,000 homeless veterans--way, way too many.

You need to be recognized in an affirmative way for basically not allowing your VA patients to dictate the dispensing as part of the overall care they are getting.

I think what we're all talking about, no matter who the President, he or she may be, truth to power is something that we have to have professionals such as yourself be willing to speak up and protect the citizens in this great country of…

That seems unacceptable to me in emergency--for an emergency department.

I have told him I am very appreciative of that. I wish it would have gone farther, but I am very appreciative of what we are getting.

I would like to hear, with your previous experience at the Department of Justice, can you tell the Members of this Committee your views on the pending reauthorization of the 702 FISA, Section 702 of FISA?