I would appreciate your cooperation on that, and I am thankful for the work that you have done in the Port of Boston.

I want to thank you and Ranking Member Comer for holding this very important hearing.

I know that DOD regards financial readiness and financial competence to be equally as relevant as operational readiness for a lot of these soldiers.

That exposure did a lot, I think. It didn't fix everything, but it certainly moved the needle.

What we did in part was we gathered data on the banks, we looked at the investments they were making in minority areas.

I have been on this committee now for over 20 years, and we had a grave problem in the mortgage and banking area.

This is probably one of the most pernicious problems that I deal with in our district.

Are there any protections that are available now, under today's circumstances, that were not available then that might prevent us from going into a similar tailspin?

I am just worried about volume. Is that because there is more volume coming over?

I got 10 cities. I got hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people all together right next to the suboxone clinic.

The adolescent death rate has gone up 100 percent, double in one year.