I thank Mr. Tonko very much for joining us. This issue is about those of us who are here today, but it is, far more importantly, about those who will be in the future. I want to dedicate this hour to a very special person, our new…

I thank Mrs. Roby, Mr. Harper, and Ms. Sewell for bringing to our attention one of the important organizations that develops leadership here in the United States, and, obviously, from the two of you, Mrs. Roby and Ms. Sewell, who are…

The work of this committee in pushing back on the $300 million rescission in the food aid programs is much appreciated.

I draw that to the attention of this committee, the interrelationship between the work of this committee and the Armed Services Committee.

Well, let me wrap this up very, very quickly in the next 60 seconds. A strategic national asset, natural gas, coupled with another strategic natural national asset, our mariners, our shipyards, our steel industry, our manufacturers of…

Who doesn't want to export natural gas? I suspect we all do. We like to do it in the proper manner, and this is the debate to be had over whether it should be done with or without this exemption from the normal process. But there is…

I thank the gentlewoman so very much. 124 Labor Days for the working men and women of America. We should keep that in mind, and certainly I know the gentlewoman will and I, and I am sure my colleagues, at least on the Democratic side of…

Before I launch into the major subject matter of this evening, I want to call attention to the horrific fires that have occurred in California over the last month. It is extremely early in the fire season. Normally, fires of the size that…

My time is over. My final 15 seconds, which is not really available but if the chairman doesn't shut me up, is that the Congress this year will not complete a massive infrastructure program, but it is in the works that all of us are…

Which is precisely what the U.S. Congress did in the National Defense Authorization Act. It committed itself to a 330-ship Navy, to $1 trillion for the repurposing and re-upbuilding of our nuclear deterrent. Money is not there, the…

Yes, we should be concerned about a secure funding source, but it looks to me like, Mr. Kelly, you have secured about 80 percent of the funding necessary to complete what you now call step 1 of phase 1.

the fundamental problem is we don't have a funding source going forward, and if we had that, things would be better but not necessarily solved.