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Thank you very much. Good news on the Dome, absolutely. We look forward to seeing it restored to its beauty. It is a wonderful symbol of our freedoms.

What is the need for 99 additional FTEs? That is a pretty large increase.

Okay. Let me ask you about the Congressional Research Service, and thank you for what the Library provides for us there.

I give a great deal of credit to Senator Crapo for passionately advocating for veterans in Idaho.

Coal jobs have plunged more than 50 percent in just the last 5 years.

What this administration and the EPA do not understand is what their actions have done to the people of West Virginia.

Today, we have before us the President's request to fund what I see as the final chapter in this administration's war on coal.

Our business has dropped majorly, and I am struggling day to day just to try to decide to pay the bills or to restock.

I was honored to attend the Sample Return Robot Challenge, winner level 2, which again was at WVU.

We are still falling short in our STEM education.

She is a wonderful champion for many things, one of which is NASA.

I think most of you have mentioned that what you need is the Federal minimum standard nobody has a problem with; it is the implementation aspect of it.

And I would just finally note that you participated or agreed to participate with OSM to develop the new stream buffer rule.

I think as it pertains to this, the objective of maybe revisiting the relationship between the service secretaries and the Service Chiefs and the Secretary may not be as related to the question of whether COCOMs have the majority influence.

But 980, I am just saying, is there a number? Is it going to be 1-1, 1-2, 1-3? Where do we need to be as far as our personnel?

The thing is, I think, from your perspective as well--not to be presumptuous about this--but it is much easier to retain a capability than to have to rebuild it.

If we do not listen to the people that have the knowledge such as you on the expertise and we start setting caps and different things that basically sound politically correct and we can sell them back home, it makes no sense at all because…

I do believe that we are increasing risk for modernization as we are talking about here.