Dianne Feinstein

For example, Los Angeles County reported the largest increase in veteran homelessness in the country, documenting 1,748 more homeless veterans in 2017, an increase of 64 percent from 2016.

California communities represented seven of the ten largest increases in homelessness nationally since 2016.

The 2017 Point-In-Time (PIT) Count from your Department found approximately 553,700 individuals' nationwide experiencing homelessness on any given night in January 2017, a net increase of 3,800 people experiencing homelessness as compared…

It is because of their powerful and deeply personal stories that I first began working on the Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and Safe Sport Authorization Act.

We owe it to them, and all of the other survivors, to continue to shed light on the failures of those who were meant to protect them, and bring justice to those who have long deserved it.

This is an extremely important and bipartisan issue, and I am very grateful to both the Chairman and the Ranking Member for giving it the attention it deserves.

California needs more storage, and that is certainly true. We are waiting and we have waited for 15 years now for Reclamation to complete the feasibility studies on sites Los Vaqueros and Temperance Flat.

I will never forget the Sunday afternoon just over a year ago when we heard that the collapse of Oroville Dam's emergency spillway was imminent. It would threaten 180,000 lives if it collapsed.

By delaying funds or providing insufficient funds to an ongoing construction project, the total cost of that project is going to go up.

This represents a $1.2 billion or 56 percent cut, Mr. Chairman, from the fiscal year 2018 omnibus.

The Administration's budget request represents a $2 billion or 30 percent cut. That is devastating.

On a bipartisan basis, Congress has now twice rejected the Administration's attempt to terminate the Federal Transit Administration's capital investment grant program.

I'd like to see that we effect something that's reasonable.

This is the law, that it was set and signed in 2007 by President Bush. It was a bipartisan bill.

Global warming is real and carbon infiltration into the atmosphere is a major cause and if we can reduce that, maybe we can save the planet.

If you diverge--this is my understanding. If you diverge from the California standards, we would no longer have a single national program for fuel economy and this would put automakers in a very difficult position.

Well, we believe that if it moves ahead as originally legislated, the Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency standards will be over 50 miles by 2025.

Thank you very much, Madam Chairman, and it's good to see you, Madam Secretary.

Maybe the first one.

We had a deal. We agreed to modernize the B61 in exchange for retiring the B83.

Fielding the B61-12 enables the retirement of the B83-1 bomb in mid to late 2020s.

I have a letter here from former Defense Secretary Hagel and former Energy Secretary Moniz from 2013.

I expressed concerns about the cost and management of the B61 Life Extension Program.

Times have changed since World War II. The world is more interconnected and knowledgeable about nuclear weapons.

I can say that the B83 is the largest warhead in America's arsenal.