But if we are still going to serve families and if we want to retain women in the military, we also have to be addressing the family's healthcare needs, not only the child's but my gender, women's healthcare.

What specific infrastructure projects would be pulled forward with this increase? And why should the subcommittee pull forward any work at all when NNSA can't even keep pace with your current work?

The New START Treaty is the final linchpin in the United States-Russian nuclear arms control.

I certainly hope the $250 million becomes the new Federal funding floor, not the ceiling.

It really appeared that you outmaneuvered your own Secretary in pursuit of an unrealistic, wildly fantastical number.

OK. And then, lastly, is the Corps prepared to use all contracting tools available to implement CEPP?

The drama that was depicted with the President's ultimate decision clearly seems to have gone outside the normal process.

I don't understand why that is the case.

Let me just point out for the record that, respectfully, the ranking member is not correct that all--when he says that all Americans have benefited from this robust economy.

how can we ensure that these chemical producer partners are going to act in good faith during this challenge since it is not really in their interest?

we were thrilled that a new start was awarded so that we could begin the $29 million in construction funding

I just hope that is not an excuse to get out of it.

You can't possibly expect us to give you that much money in this small part of the budget.

So, to suggest that we can just whitewash the Federal law on Fair Housing and essentially blanch it from acknowledging that we need to make sure that we are taking care not to allow discrimination based on race and racially concentrated…

But having that information without that genetic advice is really----

I am very concerned over the recently publicized battle which you appear to have not mentioned or downplayed in your response to Mr. Pocan.

The investments that we have to make beyond just in this research so that we can have it result in these discoveries...

Why were the projections about what would be needed in future years so wrong or were they not wrong?

I would say in the nicest way possible that we don't agree, but we have been around that block before.

it makes a lot more sense over the long term to invest in renewable energy, not finite energy, in clean energy, not dirty energy.

So, you are not concerned about the fact that they could not act in good faith while--during your partnership and not make sure that we have plastics that are actually naturally renewable, as you referred to in your opening statement?

Why embark on Coal FIRST, when you are proposing to cut EERE by 74 percent?

I just do not understand why because you are dealing with a finite resource.

It can only be described as yet another attack by the Trump Administration on civil rights.

You can't catch up for 30 years in 5 years.