So in a less than a year, nearly 20,000 low-income people in Arkansas, sir, have lost their healthcare because of a work requirement that your agency approved.

Healthier people working does not mean that work requirements make people healthier. I assume you understand that?

I would imagine that cutting a program by $1.4 trillion doesn't actually make the program, strengthen the integrity of the program or make it easier for people to gain access to insurance.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

I want to thank the witnesses for appearing today and to the committee for holding this important hearing.

I am particularly interested in the development of offshore wind resources. We know offshore wind holds an immense opportunity for abundant renewable energy.

How do we ensure that our workforce training and development efforts in this emerging sector are inclusive, and intentionally target populations that most need and most stand to gain from access to these new good-paying jobs?

if you judge the strength of the law by the power of its remedy and you have got remedies in place but the State just chooses not to enforce it, is there really any regulation to begin with?

There is testimony that is coming on the second panel that indicates that children are still being separated from their parents at the border.

Even for an administration that seems to go out of its way to treat immigrants as less, this seems a new low.

I urge passage of this bill, and I yield back my time.