Tim Ryan

Thank you very much, Congressman Ryan, for that question.

The ability for the Defense Department to spend money, to procure things, is an awesome amount of buying power.

Thank you for prioritizing this hearing. I think this is a critically important issue.

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

So we buy a bunch of bad food, feed it to our kids, cover them with healthcare. They get diabetes.

I question the food that they are being fed. Very highly processed, lots of sugar, additive sugar.

Well, just to be clear, that document basically affirmed your intelligence as well.

Thank you, Mr. Amodei.

I think those are the kinds of things that we need to do now, and we could maybe start making some serious headway on some of this.

There has to be a creative way we can move these projects up, start getting them done, and get creative with how we can, you know, save the taxpayer a lot of money.

I mean, we have--and I don't know how we do this, because we are the Federal Government, and a lot of this stuff needs done.

So, Mr. Blanton, all the doors will be--what are the strongest doors we have in the Capitol?

There are a lot of inequality. There are opportunities for a greater role for prevention and education and earlier treatment.

We have been committed to doing is really trying to create an environment and a culture here on the Capitol.

That is mind-boggling to us, how, given everything going on, the FBI issues some kind of report...

You look at the lack of communication, you look at the lack of--you guys didn't even see the FBI threat assessment.

It is really frustrating for us, who have become friends with so many of these rank-and-file members...

Well, I hope you understand our frustration.

I think, you know, we can do both. We appreciate your communications with us... but we also think the American people and the press need to hear directly from you.

I would like to just kind of follow up and ask Chief Pittman if she could answer the question about the tens of thousands of insurrectionists, what that exact number was of people on the Capitol complex that were pushing through to get to…

It takes a lot of nerve to be in a leadership position today like the one you are in.

That is a very limited number compared to what the threat was.

Hey, we need more help.

Thank you for all the good work you do behind the scenes.

But we cannot militarize the Capitol in response to an attempted ransacking of representative democracy.