Thank you, Chairman Peters, Ranking Member Paul, and thank all of you for being here today and your testimony because this hearing and finding solutions not only matters to patients, to ourselves, to our own budgets, people's kitchen-table…

The events in East Palestine should be a wake-up call for all Americans that it is time to address how we transport hazardous materials in this country.

In Nevada, and, of course, across this nation, parents of nearly 75 percent of children under the age of 5 do not have access to a licensed childcare provider.

I was proud to introduce the Minority Entrepreneurship Grant Program Act with Senator Tillis last Congress.

If we are serious about this, I do agree we need to do a better job bringing lifesaving drugs here.

Last Congress, I worked with Senator Tim Scott to introduce the Made in America Act.

I want to ensure that minority entrepreneurs and small owners have the proper resources to thrive.

I think it is important to think about how we do need private industry to make changes, especially to their quality.

I have made it my priority to ensure there is an expansion, an SBA loan eligibility for small businesses in the Nevada and nationwide.

Well, when it comes to safety, we should be investing in that.

Senator Ernst and I have the Small Business Childcare Investment Act--we are very proud of that one--to allow these nonprofit childcare providers to take advantage of everything the SBA has to offer.

Securing the health care and public health sector we know is critical to protecting our national security.

Workforce attrition, there is lengthy training periods, there is forced early retirement, coupled with the stop and go funding we have had with sequestration, it really had a lasting negative effect on our air traffic control workforce.

Workforce attrition, there is lengthy training periods, there is forced early retirement, coupled with the stop and go funding we have had with sequestration, it really had a lasting negative effect on our air traffic control workforce.

I want to talk a little bit about military to commercial aviation pipeline.

Pilots can't fly without the air traffic controllers managing those runways, right, and all the other things that they look at in the skies.

Increasing the ability for Federal loans for pilots, not only, you know, for everybody to get a more diverse workforce, allow people that traditionally wouldn't be able to get into the workforce ability to get funding is essential.

I have introduced a bill with Marsha Blackburn, the Cyber Ready Workforce Act, to surge up capacity with the Department of Labor (DOL) to award grants to increase access to things like a registered apprenticeship program.

I want to talk a little bit about military to commercial aviation pipeline.

I did have a bill last year to strengthen medical device cybersecurity, the updated the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidance, and it was included in last year's FDA package and became law as part of the omnibus.

Increasing the ability for Federal loans for pilots, not only, you know, for everybody to get a more diverse workforce, allow people that traditionally wouldn't be able to get into the workforce ability to get funding is essential.

I just think that it's a really important part of our workforce that we need to continue to see thrive and grow.

Securing the health care and public health sector we know is critical to protecting our national security.

I have some of that legislation myself I have sponsored.

Over the past three years, the health care data breaches have doubled.