I know I had real concerns about making sure that we maintained--it is maintained and we even added $10 million in the final result of our bill.

I do just want to correct the record from my friend from Montana because the number he cited, which I heard the skepticism in your voice, Madam Secretary, of $1.256 billion going to purchase electric vehicles is actually the amount for the…

public service is the rent you pay for space on this earth.

These burn facilities have been known to emit pollutants that cause cancer, respiratory problems, and reproductive health risks.

But the current budget submission has it still within women's health care.

And quite frankly, addressing global warming and climate change, and the impact it has on the deterioration of our infrastructure certainly is a quality-of-life issue.

It is really essential that we make sure that we do all we can structurally to help ensure that veterans get the care they need.

Are the Navy and the Marines doing something similar to more granularly zero in on your own data in your service rather than the general across the board DoD service like the Army has?

We need to start the comprehensive study--restudy now before it is too late.

I just hope this raises a caution flag on moving forward on barracks and unaccompanied housing because I don't trust them.

Flood control, global warming, climate change, sea level rise not a someday thing in south Florida. They are a right now thing.

That is incredibly important to understand whether the numbers that you are looking at are the result of more reporting or more assaults.

the goal is prevention.

Upholding our commitments to the Nation's heroes is a critical mission.

But if you fear being sexually assaulted no matter how good the conditions are in those barracks, then your quality of life needless to say is poor.

Thank you for being here.

We protected funding for women's health care, all while defeating attempts to restrict women's access to abortion.

I always say that, in south Florida, climate change is not a someday thing. It is a right now thing.

This committee is led by a Texan and a Floridian, and I think we would say we are definitely pro air conditioning.

the responsiveness with military family housing has been atrocious, so much so that we had to put in $130 million and then $140 million in the last 2 years for oversight at the military leadership

I continue to hear concerns from the public that the speed of DoD's remediation efforts for PFAS contamination is far too slow.

I am incredibly supportive of that program, especially because you have a 58 percent no-show or cancellation rate of VA appointments for veterans with children due to a lack of childcare.

Note to self, do not make Judge Carter mad.

if you can just follow up with us with more detail about how that question instrument was designed that would be helpful.

It is really important that women have separate care in separate centers.