I wanted to follow up, too, there have been health and safety concerns that have been raised related to the flammability standards for children's car seats.

I'm sure states would like to have a Sherpa. That would be great.

Thank you for that, for the I-93 improvement project.

Chairman Coffman, Ranking Member Kuster, and Members of the Subcommittee, this concludes my prepared statement.

So at the risk of sounding overly lawyerly, I want to follow the benefit, if I could, on behalf of the veterans and the taxpayers.

So I want to get at: Knowing that the practices of the delivery of medicine is dramatically changing...

This is why Congress and the VA must work together to address areas that need improvement.

We simply must improve the contracting process between the VA and its affiliates for medical services.

Thank you, Chairman Coffman.

The VA plays a vital role in our national health care delivery system.

I think we are cautiously optimistic that the EU countries will again roll over sanctions at the end of June.

We are trying to get the commitments that Russia and Donbas made to the OSCE for full access.

Part of Russia's campaign in eastern Europe, in the Baltics and Ukraine, has been to produce disinformation.

Minsk is far from being implemented on--in any of its components.

I think it is really important for this Committee to understand whether any of the individuals that we know were involved in Paris--that have been identified in Brussels--were they on the 'terrorist watchlist?'

the program is only as good as the information we have, in terms of how this vetting happens.

So, this is a really important question. And, the reason I think it is a really important question is that we are only as good as the information that we have.

And I make this statement at every hearing because until it is resolved, it hurts me every day to remind all of my colleagues and everyone who comes before this Committee that New Mexico is still one of the hungriest states in the country.