We have mistreated law enforcement over the last couple of years and we have disincentivized them to stay on the force.

We need to enable our officers.

I just want to touch base. We are having a hard time in L.A. County right now.

I feel like we're investing in some archaic designs, archaic technologies that frankly have proven that they can't meet the demands, and I haven't heard how we're going to address our dependency on China, our dependency on Russia.

These are massive problems in an inflationary period that is absolutely backbreaking to our constituents and frankly I think Americans around the country because we don't have the adequate resources and in my opinion the adequate infrastructure needed to meet the energy demands of our people.

I'm concerned and frankly I'm a little more concerned even after your testimony that we as a nation after our population has nearly doubled over the last 40 years, our organic production of energy to meet the demands of that population in terms of energy consumption has not kept up.

I haven't heard where we've made cuts. I haven't heard what programs have been sacrificed so that we can pay the programs that are needed or where synergies or efficiencies have been gained in the last year and a half to 2 years out of DOE so that we can afford other technologies and investments in those technologies.

We're seeing gasoline prices in California that has a lot of gasoline within its borders and underneath its ground, lots of oil reserves at $6 to $6.50 a gallon.

The National School Boards Association communicated for several weeks with the White House before the letter was sent.

I don't think we as a nation should be cooperating with China on our space endeavors, either on the commercial or defense side.

I think we need to figure out how to scale up.