Betty McCollum

We can be short people when we need them the most.

We are going to protect clean drinking water out of this subcommittee.

the Army Futures Command is going to need some help from industry, small business, not just in Texas

the GAO report last summer was critical of Army Futures Command's small business engagement

I think we will work very hard this year to see what we can do, and thank you again for being here.

It is just that the bureaucratic stuff, it gets to be frustrating.

We continue to monitor to the Administration getting out some of the earthquake relief funds and trying to hold individuals accountable.

The need for investment in healthcare and related facilities is real, and we continue to do the best we can with the allocation we are given.

We need to have a real education understanding about forests are more than trees. They are also about water.

I might be looking to work with you to talk about how we make sure all our ducks are in a row before we do this because it could have severe consequences to our healthcare.

We need to help our schools get the lead out so that our kids can learn and grow up safely every day.

Now the FEMA Administration has been handling a lot of the issues in a good way in terms of the earthquake recovery.

I am very concerned that we are not thinking this out thoughtfully and about not only what we are doing to the research side, but the healthcare delivery side.

We need to think about how the Space Force is going to align with NATO and our other allies.

Considering the Department's experience in working with SARS and MERS over the past 20 years, two respiratory illnesses that are similar to COVID-19, I would like to know what the Department of Defense and the Army in particular are doing…

We would like information on the Department in how you have been maintaining your own stockpile of respirators and masks and how you would distribute them within the different branches of service, if needed.

We can't afford to lose you as part of our backbone for not only our military health but for our allover U.S. healthcare system.

This unnecessary harm to the environment stands to threaten Atlantic Marine resources that support over 1.5 million jobs.

I love the water we drink, the land we hike, hunt, and farm.

We want to see progress moving forward.

I am going to make a plea here before I turn this over to Mr. Joyce.

I respectfully request that the committee appropriate robust funding for our National Park Service and work to move my bill through the House in order to give this site the recognition that it deserves.

We have a shortage of physicians and doctors in this country.

I am here again asking for additional funding for our tribal social services program.

We would like to work with you to resolve that, but that is something at this time that we would find very difficult.