John Garamendi

How much money have you asked for?

Missile defense can be done in a couple of different ways. The one I want to really focus on is directed energy.

My daughter is a kindergarten teacher, and the children are listening. They are listening to our national debate. They are listening to the television. They are coming to class, and they are repeating. They are repeating the bullying that…

Well, it is our business to conduct internal warfare within the Departments, and to decide where the money goes.

Wouldn't it be better all the way around to ship food than to just ship money?

The administration's request was to reduce food and transfer the money to the military.

You and the administration are rapidly reducing one of the three.

The real issue is cargo.

Why are you doing that, when we have--at least according to General McDew--a significant national security issue?

So, instead of spending $25 million in basically what is a subsidy, a welfare check, we could just maintain the food program as it is today and ship food, keeping the ships busy, keeping the mariners busy, and actually doing something…

Well, we will eventually have a new administration, which I hope has more sense about how to do this.

It is our business to second-guess.

Well, this fight is not over. And we are going to stay with it.

We have been debating here for some time whether we have the courage to do an AUMF.

I want to focus on ISR for a few moments, and whether the requirements are being met or what you might need.

Mr. Tonko, I wasn't in Flint, Michigan when Representative Kildee spoke to that young child--I think he was probably 4 or 5--who had been drinking this lead contaminated water, and was aware that he had been drinking the water. When that…

The art of the possible. The art of the possible is what we have here. Mr. Tonko, I don't know where you were when I brought this up. This is the drinking water in Flint, Michigan. That is a recent photo from a water tap in Flint…

We appreciate you being here. Thank you so very much. Well, Mr. Tonko, lead pipes.

I appreciate the opportunity to lobby you. You are in a very important position, as are all of us; 435 of us are going to make choices about what is important and how we spend our constituents' tax money. And these are choices we are going…

Just double, if you would, just double the amount we are spending for the clean drinking water programs at the Federal level from about $1 billion to, let's say, $2 billion, or maybe even $3 billion, by squeezing some of the expenditures…

Okay. Also, in the President's budget, he has $1.36 billion for the new Long Range Strike Bomber; $113 million for a ground-based strategic deterrence; $1.4 billion for the Ohio class submarine--those are nuclear submarines; the new…

Let me just lobby you. You are going to be taking up the budget--I think tomorrow, actually.

Mr. Lieu, you said you are on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. You had the hearing last week and began the process of developing an understanding of what happened and who was responsible. Critically important. You also said…

Mr. Tonko, thank you so very, very much. You brought to this issue enormous facts and passion. Your work as the ranking member on the subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee positions you in a very, very important place. Your…

I thank the gentlewoman from Texas. I know that your concerns are very real. You traveled to Flint, and you have been working on these issues for many, many years. Thank you for your participation. Tomorrow, the Democrats are holding their…