I certainly want to see this project completed and done in a responsible way, because I believe your past leadership has shown you capable of doing that, and we want to be helpful.

In my view, that is a clear testament to the importance of these efforts.

I love visiting the Library, and I want to tell you that my staff recently was able to take a field trip and visit the Library.

The Library is such a treasure for us all.

After the Cold War we divested significant capacity in the Indo-Pacific and adopted a posture that assumed a more concentrated basing model.

I remain concerned that the Air Force has not adequately prioritized the FRSM funding to renovate the former STRATCOM Headquarters.

I remain concerned that the Air Force has not adequately prioritized the FRSM funding to renovate the former STRATCOM Headquarters.

Ultimately, we traded away the flexibility of having larger network of bases, and facilities, ports, and dry docks, and runways for cost savings and efficiencies.

After the Cold War we divested significant capacity in the Indo-Pacific and adopted a posture that assumed a more concentrated basing model.

Ultimately, we traded away the flexibility of having larger network of bases, and facilities, ports, and dry docks, and runways for cost savings and efficiencies.

There is another superfund site in my district in Valley, Nebraska, that has been added to the national priority list due to concentrations of TCE (trichloroethylene) found in the groundwater.

the investigation has gone on for 4 years. And obviously, we want to start taking action and doing cleanup.

I have heard from our farmers and ranchers anger at this Administration for reinstating this rule.

There is anger. I think any goodwill that this Administration had built with farmers and ranchers, it is gone with this ruling.

I appreciate the Air Force's commitment to rebuilding Offutt, after the devastation caused by the floods in 2019.

Ultimately, we traded away the flexibility of having larger network of bases, and facilities, ports, and dry docks, and runways for cost savings and efficiencies.

After the Cold War we divested significant capacity in the Indo-Pacific and adopted a posture that assumed a more concentrated basing model.

Thank you, Madam Chairman.