Mike Garcia

I want to thank you for that clarification.

I think we are trying to have a self-fulfilling prophecy that China is not doing the same investments and not making the same progress that we are.

I think we're at a really meaningful part of our Nation's history. I actually view this technology quantum coupled with AI and machine learning as the fourth offset, the fourth military offset.

It is more important now that Congress does something about stopping this wasteful spending.

The Inflation Reduction Act... was touted as the Green New Deal, the biggest climate... bill ever in the history of the United States.

We have $31 trillion in debt. The Federal Government has lost hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars, to fraud, abuse and waste.

The inflation that is being felt by Americans in my district is very real.

If I can with the 5 seconds, is there a high-fidelity plan that you can share with us?

When do you anticipate we get back to sort of 2021, 2022 reserve levels, before the sell-off?

What is preventing--I mean, we are at $70, I think, today.

I would just encourage us all to keep looking at this as these are green shoots and, I think, very important options for us.

I would say a mediocre fighter pilot at best, but thank you for the flattery.

Are you aware of the plan to refill our reserves? What does that plan look like?

I sit on the Science, Space, Technology Committee as well, and we have been talking small modular reactors.

I think we have compelled Xi Jinping to maybe delay aspirations for annexing Taiwan in a similar fashion as a result of what he has witnessed coming out of Europe now with this.

The Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act is a first step toward achieving necessary measures of accountability.

This hearing may seem timely, especially after this report, but let's not forget that to this day, the United States has not acknowledged or apologized for its actions during the Boarding School Era.

This is about a housing shortage. This is about housing affordability. This is about enabling homeless families to get a roof over their head.

I think these manufactured homes play an important role, especially when it comes to some of the housing challenges that we have.

Even at 5 million, you are still putting about $12,000 per year to each of these 5 million people.

I believe it is a noble mission. But I am a numbers guy, and as an appropriator, especially right now where our Nation is seeing record inflation, 8.5 percent, and a debt of $30 trillion at the Federal level, we have got to pay attention…

These numbers don't make sense, and I think--I think you are not getting all of the power to the ground, the power of the American taxpayer dollar to the ground in these neighborhoods where we need to be making the investments that you…

$61 billion rounding up, $60.8 billion, would be sufficient. If you assume 500,000 homeless people in our country right now, which is a rough estimate plus or minus, that $61 billion is enough to give every homeless person in our Nation…

Only about 15 percent of that gets to the ground, Madam Secretary. That is all I am saying. It is woefully inefficient, and we can do better.

We need fewer bureaucrats in the agency and maybe more focus on how do we get this money to the neighborhoods.