Maryland has a military--major military footprint, and we also care about restoring and protecting the Chesapeake Bay.

Supporting our troops' readiness and their families is so critical.

We want to be there to work with you.

We can make transformative investments in our rail and just continuing to be so far behind the rest of the world is not who we are.

There has been a number of comments about Amtrak Joe over the course of the hearing, and his million-plus miles on Amtrak.

The President's fiscal year 2023 budget, 9.4 percent increase over 2022.

Sometimes the best answer is we don't have the answer yet, let's work together to get it.

Maglev has the potential to create almost 160,000 jobs. It is supported by labor.

We lost 107,000 Americans, the number came out today from the CDC, last year, to overdoses.

We need to ensure security in space by aggressively countering Chinese and Russian ambitions.

We are pleased to see NSF is focused on spurring innovation, increasing STEM opportunities in underserved regional hubs.

Any dollars we can get to expunge automatically, the states are not keeping up with this. That would help folks get employment.

The job is what we have to stress with the new director of the BOP.

These are some of the thousands of supplier companies across the country that have helped build NASA's first deep space exploration system since the end of Apollo.

120 million is--it is just--I don't think it is going to be enough, from what we understand.

The United States must establish a strong permanent American presence in space.

We must foster harmony between NASA and the private sector to meet our goals and our timelines.

I believe it is vital that Congress reject this trend of overspending.

We believe BOP needs strong leadership from the top.

Excellent. Thank you very much.

In my company in private business, we have hired over 500 returning citizens and we get a double-digit better number on retention rate.

We are currently in the midst of a devastating mental health crisis.

Yeah. That is the number that we have heard also, $200 million each over a period of a number of years to get us back to where we need to be.

We simply cannot ignore the threat from China and our adversaries who are making technological manufacturing and exploration advancements on a daily basis.

Only 50 percent of the individuals in federal custody are completing or they are enrolled in programming.