You really do inspire people, including the people at the Department of Energy and people outside the Department of Energy.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I would like to recognize the exceptional job you have done at the Department of Energy and in service to our country.

Too few Americans realize just what an enormous energy revolution is happening around our world, but it is a credit to your work.

It is not in our interest, it is not in liberty's interest to have this continue without an equal response, and the West's response is very anemic compared to what is coming out of the Russian.

I want to associate myself with the chairman's support and Congressman Womack and others of the State Partnership Program.

But I want to ensure that our National Guardsmen are getting the opportunities they deserve.

I am glad this is being broadcast. This is an example, this committee, of Congress working well, but it doesn't get enough publicity.

I am concerned that the code used to activate them does not provide the full range of benefits, health care, education, retirement as for other enlisted levels.

I want to express my own deep concern about Russia's well-funded and organized propaganda war in Ukraine, the Baltics, Europe, and even here in the West.

I hope, Mr. Secretary, with that endorsement, that you will find ways to broaden it, to fully utilize it, particularly in those places which are so much at risk right now.

For women with children, it just seems to me there ought to be something going on at DOD that would help those who have so nobly served our Nation.