I am from California, a region that is very susceptible to wildfires.

I don't support mandatory vaccines as a qualification to work in any capacity.

I am not sure it is all attributed to climate change, as much as it is to other policy decisions.

There is a perception that I hear very frequently, not only in my district here in southern California but also, you know, throughout the West Coast and in D.C., that folks are, frankly, flabbergasted that we can have major cities in our country be overcome by rioters for extended periods of time without really seeing, in their opinion and the perception is, enough law enforcement coming in to actually stop this type of civil unrest--riots, looting, and arson.

So I am hopeful that this administration can provide us with that holistic national security strategy to hopefully end this crisis soon and allow the various agencies to start working together in the interest of making sure that we can survive as a Nation.

Do you have an explicit ask of us here in this committee to help with the funding to make sure that we are getting the body-cam hardware, firmware, software, as well as all the--a lot of the costs on the body cam is actually on the maintenance and the documentation and the memorialization of the videos.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and again, thank you, Doctor, for the excellent testimony.

I think, you know, if done correctly, the $10.2 billion can behave like $20 billion.

Great. I love the concept.

My question is around defense contractors, folks who are providing critical assets to national security programs around the country.

I like things like the $3 billion that goes to EDA.