Donald Norcross

Absolutely. General Murray, would you concur?

the budget cut to the Department of Defense being proposed by this administration, in my mind, is somewhat unacceptable in the situation we are in right now.

The hearing will come to order. The Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee meets today to review the Army and Marine Corps ground modernization program for fiscal year 2022 budget request.

Welcome. I would like to call this hearing to order.

Thank you, Chairman. Appreciate it.

I personally, and I think a lot of my colleagues, continue to believe that waivers such as these should be thoroughly vetted, rare, short, and only granted in exceptional emergency circumstances.

I understand that. So we had a 1-week shutdown. Not good at all.

So that is the good news. The bad news is certainly much longer than we ever anticipated.

It's great to have a Committee that's absolutely focused on survival.

$7.50 an hour in the wealthiest nation in the world that incrementally and predictably would raise it.

It's time to wake up. I have nothing against the folks on the other side of the aisle, this is a moral obligation to make sure people can live.

I appreciate the expansion on your answer on that.

the idea we believe, even without police, that they'll do the right thing is simply not happening across the board

there was a letter circulated today by my colleague Joe Courtney about increasing the funding to the Department of Labor

the idea that mental health is so important, and so many people who have not really been challenged by it are now seeing it across the board, and we have to get that to them, that's why this legislation is so important.

The ``thugs.'' Are those the friends of the folks who attacked this Capitol? Is that who you are talking about? Those are thugs. Madam Speaker, for 44 years, I have been a member of the IBEW. My brothers went to college. I did the other…

I just want to make sure, the standards are so important. When there is a hurricane that hits the Gulf Coast, literally, linemen and workers from around the country come together. And why is that important? Because they all train on the…

I thank the chairman for yielding and certainly for his leadership in bringing this conference report to the floor for the 60th year. And certainly, I take a moment to thank Mac Thornberry, who this conference report is named after, for…

I urge my colleagues to support the National Apprenticeship Reauthorization Act so we can make sure we put America back to work. {time} 1545

Why standards are so important is because when storms hit our coast, electricians, linemen, come from around the country to put that system back together. Could you imagine if they all had their own program? This is why standards count…

So assuming that, maybe not immediately, that we are going to be back in the same situation, what does that new Afghanistan look like in terms of troops?

The single source you have identified as a major concern.

doesn't that increase some of the risk?

I want to mention my constituent Lawrence Bass, who lost his life there at Lake City in an explosion 3 years ago.

So is it the production capacity or the amount of stockpiled material that is the bigger issue?