The Elizabeth Dole Home Care Act is critically important to military and veteran caregivers across the Nation.

I am proud of this committee's longstanding leadership and multi-year efforts to pass constructive and responsible welfare reform.

The primary goal of the TANF program is to assist families in need with a hand up, providing a safety net of government assistance to find work and pull themselves out of poverty.

welfare reform was based on one simple idea shared by people of all political stripes: the belief that the best way out of poverty is a job, and that reducing poverty should be about helping people move from welfare to work.

The primary goal of TANF should be to reduce adversity for poor children by providing stability and support for their families.

Emerging hydrogen and fuel cell markets present an opportunity to stimulate economic growth in my home state of Illinois as well as other states and improve the environmental health for the whole planet.

I have heard you talk about the case management and, Ms. Francis, you have social workers, people with MSWs?

Unfortunately, most of my--our Republican colleagues voted against the CHIPS and Science Act.

I hope that we can work together to make it easier, not harder, for kinship families to get help from TANF.

I think we just need parity right now. The programs are in place for new aviation platforms, but right now it does feel like hydrogen aviation is being excluded.

I completely disagree and I'd invite anyone who wants to to come out to New Mexico and visit the National Laboratories.

billions and billions of dollars is involved in student athletics.

Do you think that collective bargaining would be helpful for student-athletes?

I think a lot of questions still remain on how are we going to best serve our student-athletes.

I want to tip my hat to our colleague, Representative Trahan, who is one of those, and I am sure there are others among our--among our Members.

However, huge disparities in--still exist between athletes in various colleges. So more--absolutely more needs to be done.

After 20 years of service to our Nation and the American people, thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. It's my pleasure to introduce our witnesses and I welcome each of you for being here.