I think that focus will be incredibly important for getting the kind of talent that we need in what is becoming a very competitive environment with the private sector.

I absolutely align with Secretary Carter that we are in a war on talent.

Everything the Secretary is doing, anything I can do to make that easier I will do.

This Committee has expressed its concern in the NDAA that it takes an unreasonable amount of time to hire experienced individuals at the defense labs.

I was pleased to see this year's budget request quadruple the European Security Initiative to $3.4 billion.

What kind of force presence do we have in place today in the Baltics, and do you believe it is enough to reassure our allies?

And the question focusing on my migration, how could that best be used in order...

I could not agree with you, and Senator Menendez, and Senator Cardin in terms of democracy and human rights.

And I know she mentioned this because my staff told me.

I think we are trying to do that at the Federal executive level.

Striking these balances are very important, and making sure that we don't end up in an environment where we just create more hunger.

We still have the hungriest families in the country.

We want to make sure beneficiaries and families, individuals in the community aren't doing things--and providers and contractors, that here I have a state that is falsifying records to deny access to some of the hungriest families in the…

New Mexico finds itself in a really difficult situation where we have some of the highest poverty rates, highest food insecurity rates, highest unemployment rates now in the country.

finding the balances so that we are innovative and thinking about ways, particularly, to garner better access, not just to food in general but healthy food that has the educational components and choice in areas where we have significant…

I hope it is clear that this Committee, in a bipartisan effort, really wants to make these benefits work in a way that assists people to move out of poverty.

That is why they have a tall Congresswoman.

That is why last month I introduced H.R. 5215, the Closing the Meal Gap Act of 2016.