I appreciate the opportunity to have a wide variety of witnesses come in, and I am very anxious to hear their testimony.

The good news is that some of our most diverse employees have gone on to better and brighter jobs.

the pool of applicants and diversity within those applicants has a lot less to do with race and more to do with gender and other issues, and that is a concern that I have.

We wanted to make sure and we still need to do a better job of making sure diversity and inclusion matters at the district office level too.

what can we do, in your opinion, to help encourage more conservative Republican diverse employees to come out here?

I think it is great to have these discussions. We are talking about vote fraud being infinitesimal, it is just such a small amount, it is just a little bit of fraud.

Remember, we did not seat a duly elected Member from North Carolina's Ninth District because of voter fraud and the ballot harvesting provisions that were not legal in North Carolina but legal in California and others.

The vote suppressionists that we talk about in this Subcommittee, they have been doing a pretty crappy job over the last two election cycles.

There is no way to talk about high-speed passenger services if we don't have reliability on the lines that we have now. And this one is abysmal.

That is a positive that we all ought to celebrate.

I want to hear from our guests today, and I would like to get as quickly into the Q&A as we possibly can.

we could have all these great ideas about internships, we could have all this great knowledge...