I want to thank you for your effort.

I want to thank you for your emphasis and for what you discussed with me with humanitarian assistance.

We will also work with the staff to get you the information that the CIA World Factbook has.

That is part of what is happening in our border is climate change with what we are witnessing with some of the people who are fleeing the effects of climate change in Central America.

Climate change can exacerbate environmental, social, economic, political drivers of instability and conflict.

I am going to press the secretaries of your services on those questions, because these issues can't lay dormant.

I think we need a different strategy that is more cosmic, less--because the current system isn't working.

We need to really work with the authorizers and with the Department of Defense and with this administration for this upcoming budget cycle to get a clear focus on the mission of the Space Force and make sure that there is transparency in…

I think the whole committee would like that.

Mental health is something in our military we know we want to cut down on people feeling that they can't ask.

this needs to be a whole-of-government approach. We need to be relying on diplomacy and development, and defense should always be our last resort.

Well, thank you. But we also don't want the Ways and Means Committee to do what they did to us in Interior--both Mr. Calvert and I had to deal with it--and that is a payment in lieu of taxes.