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

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.

Excellent. Thank you very much.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I am concerned that the fiscal year 2023 NASA budget request falls short of what is needed.

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.

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.

How are you going to get it all done? And can we help if needed?

I believe half of American parents report that their children are thinking of suicide. It is a crisis.

I am here today to urge you to provide $150,000,000 for the program in fiscal year 2023.

I just had one more quick follow-up. I have got a second CBOC up in Western Maryland, really in Hagerstown, in the heart of an areas where there is so much addiction and opioids and a lot of mental health distress.

The U.S. overdose crisis is a true public health emergency, where nearly 108,000 people died last year from overdose.

And, again, this committee, you know, wrote the check and did great work under my friend's friends leadership, the chair, so we are going to continue working on these problems.

I always tell people if we can get you to and through college, you know, you are, on average, going to make $1,000,000 more in your lifetime.

I know certainly in the case of my own tribe, many of the tribes in Oklahoma--Cherokees and Choctaws--run amazing systems where they take the Federal dollars, Madam Chair, use that.

We are probably not going to agree on how to fund the mental health professional in every school because I think that is a State and local responsibility, but we should urge that to occur.

I think that is all good, but we have to get back--the X waivers, we have to get that going.

So we have a lot of friends on these issues in this committee, and, again, it is an area where I am really proud to say the effort to move forward has been bipartisan because, again, trust and treaty obligations know no boundary on the…