"I wish you and the Ranking Member well and will pledge to be a good member of this subcommittee to see that we achieve good results for NIH and other things."
"What kind of timeframe--when could this committee have a view as to what your thinking is in a more formal way?"
"And when does the decision have to be made in order for this to really live up to the consequences of the less end strength?"
"It can be very hard to reverse that."
"I would add my support for all of our efforts in this committee to make certain that we get our appropriations process completed and done on time."
"If we're not going to meet our recruitment goals that means consequences in a practical way to how the Army operates."
"One of my concerns, and it may be my circumstance in life, at my age in life, it troubles me a bit that the solution of providing knowledge to people is through the internet."
"I would encourage you within the Biden administration, to encourage the Biden administration to be interested in trade agreements with countries."
"Thank you. There are veterans' representatives in the audience and I will explore with them what role the VSOs play in directing veterans to particular places for help."
"I will explore that further as I figure out what the next step is to make sure that veterans in Kansas and across the country know there is an advocate for them."
"It has disappointed me, surprised me the number of times in which a veteran does not know what his or her resources are."