David Trone

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.

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

Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology is headquartered in my district, NIST.

Strong export controls are needed to hold Russia accountable for its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

We must continue to focus on addressing unfair trade practices and barriers that harm U.S. workers and businesses.

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

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

Excellent. Thank you very much.

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

The COVID moment is real-time, showing us some of the challenges that we also face, which exacerbate it.

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

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

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

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

We believe BOP needs strong leadership from the top.

One of my top priorities in Congress to ensure returning citizens have a job; have a job is the key when they are released from prison.

The budget you have presented reinforces all of those efforts.

For years Federal resources have gone oftentimes to the richest 1/10 of 1 percent of the people in this Nation.

I think there is a morality about the COVID pandemic and that it is about lifesaving vaccines.

The bottom line is, our failure to pass a budget on time costs us all, together, collectively, billions of dollars, and we have to do better.

We have to work on the infrastructure where the airmen live, you know, with their families.

We are trying to have our folks mentally fit.

I am deeply concerned about the shortage of mental health that is not only in our service but across the Department of Defense and, quite frankly, across all of our Nation.

I mean, I think we can do better than that.

Okay. We would encourage you to continue to focus on the X waiver to eliminate that.