Eighty percent--eighty percent--of the Coast Guard's total workforce is absorbed through the Training Center Cape May.

I was pleased to work with Admiral Schultz to get phase 1 of the Training Center Cape May recapitalization project listed as the Coast Guard's number-one shore infrastructure budget priority for this year.

I urge you to withdraw the FAA's reprogramming request and instead develop a forward-looking strategy...

I am troubled by the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) request to the Congress to reorganize the FAA...

Don't, please don't tell me we are going to make the whole world better in 6 months by addressing climate change and all their social problems that they have and all the military problems that they have.

Let me say to you I understand your intentions, but you say that we are doing better today than we were. It seems to be we are doing worse today than we did yesterday.

This is a disaster.

But right now we have an immediate crisis. We have an immediate situation.

Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated by section [4902(2)(A)] of title 14, United States Code, as amended by section [___] of this title, for each of fiscal years 2022 and 2023, $60,000,000 is authorized for the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to fund Phase I, in fiscal year 2022, and Phase II, in fiscal year 2023, for the recapitalization of the barracks at the United States Coast Guard Training Center Cape May in Cape May, New Jersey.

Good morning Admiral Schultz and Chief Master Petty Officer Vanderhaden and thank you for appearing before the Committee for this very important hearing on the Coast Guard Budget.

In fiscal year 2021 to date, CBP has arrested 6,918 individuals with criminal convictions.