You already have really restrictive policies, and in states where access to abortion care might be completely eliminated, obviously it would be really difficult and impact retention because the percentage of female troops that end up…

The Department of the Army is facing the most dramatic cuts of all the services.

And military families are not exempt from the challenges that face other American families, and I am eager to hear from you about how we can address the infant formula shortage issue for service members and their families.

money talks, as the expression goes.

But every single year the president's request seeks to increase overall defense spending, as I mentioned in my opening remarks, but I would say for some reason, but I really kind of know what you are likely to respond, military…

I have been closely tracking all the national infant formula shortage as has a member of this subcommittee, Congressman Sanford Bishop, who chairs the Agriculture Subcommittee of Appropriations.

There shouldn't be predators that are lurking to assault a fellow, you know, soldier in the Army.

I have to commend you on how thorough your responses have been.

Sometimes these hearings are a wrestling match, and instead this one was collaborative.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

That is a law you expect to find in Putin's Russia, not America.

We have an obligation to ensure this passage from 'Maus' remains just that, a line from a book.

Censoring LGBTQ+ books in class discussions tells these students that their identities are shameful or to be feared.

assuming that the adoption of electric vehicles will save the Postal Service money in the long run, does USPS have the financial resources to increase its percentage of electric vehicles?

it blows my mind that the U.S. Postal Service is taking such, you know, infinitesimal steps toward electrification

We should have a quality of military housing, no matter where it is in the country or the world.

We still have some gaps, and one of the ways that we continue to address the gaps is to train our primary care providers...

if you don't take care of our servicemembers, then we will.

if you repeatedly violated the standards that were expected of you, ... what would happen to you?

We are paying attention to things like women with low mobility, our spinal-cord-injured veterans...

ongoing mistreatment

Reducing military construction funding when there is an overwhelming backlog of required priorities... is simply not good government.

That is a 25-percent cut.

This trend not only impacts the mission-readiness of our forces but also the quality of life of servicemembers and their families.

I just worry that we send too many veterans out of the system because the wait times are not calculated really accurately.