We need to stop and ask why are healthcare costs going up.

Well, yeah, there is that, too.

Chairman Ryan, you are already an internal champion of increasing congressional capacity, as are many members who serve on this subcommittee.

We love the GAO. Phenomenal operation.

I think there is definitely a general theme here, not with everything, but upgrade, technology, more of a focus, more of an investment.

I think that is something, again, talking about bipartisanship and finding an issue or two that we can rally around, that should be one of them.

I urge this subcommittee to encourage the Capitol Police to adopt the same practice.

We have tried on this committee over the last couple of years to finally pay interns.

I hope you hear their stories through my voice today.

As a matter of fact, one year, the New York League of Conservation Voters named me the environmentalist of the year for all of New York State.

Another critical issue for my constituents and throughout the country is support for the funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund.