Before I begin, I do want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for following through on my request to convene this morning's hearing.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I will try to be brief, because I really want to hear from the witnesses here.

One thing we know for certain is that the GPS system is going to go down, some time, some place, in a very inopportune moment.

But there is a opportunity here for public-private partnership.

I thank you for the hour, and I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________

Those statistics are a wake-up call for America. More than half the population are female, and yet our policies are not women-friendly policies. Our laws are not women-friendly laws, and we need to change that. I would like now to yield to…

If I might interrupt for a moment. I am highly motivated. My wife of almost 48 years now and my five daughters keep my constantly abreast of this issue.

Representative Hahn, thank you so very, very much. This chart here, When Women Succeed, America Succeeds, picks up a handful of the bills that have been introduced by the Democratic Caucus, many of these bills by women, a few men along the…

Thank you so very much for your work on the appropriations and pushing these issues along. Representative Mike Honda from California has been working on the issues of education for many, many years and has some insights into how this issue…

Representative Honda, thank you so very much. Among the many pieces of legislation that the Democratic Caucus has put forward on this issue of when women succeed, America succeeds is the issue of universal pre-K. Head Start is one part of…

Mr. Tonko, I knew that I would enjoy listening to you. The passion, the knowledge, the intensity that you bring to this issue is critically important. You have worked at these issues for a long time, and I want to talk, just wrap up the…

It is the Make It in America chart. It is the revitalization of manufacturing in the United States. And I could probably give your speech on the industrialization of the State of New York. I will let you do it, however. But these are the…