Almost everybody says we need people to come to work. One of the greatest needs is in terms of cyber.

We need to strengthen the financial management functions of the Department, and that remains on GAO's High Risk List.

Jeff is exceptionally well qualified to serve as the Department's next CFO, and I know his long-held institutional knowledge and his extensive experience in budget management will serve our country well.

We need to do a whole lot of that in the days going forward.

There certainly is.

How about heat waves? Absent climate change, would we be experiencing events such as the Pacific Northwest 2021 heatwave, or this past summer's heatwave in the U.S.?

Would you have said when hell freezes over?

Can't you guys just work together? Can't you work together? Can't you get something done?

We can be proud as Americans that we are leading the pack in terms of addressing climate change.

I think the consensus around innovation, American leadership, things like the example I just gave you that would probably save lots of lives in Hawaii or California or elsewhere, I think that is part of the reason why things are moving forward.

I think we know where we are going if we don't work together, pull together.