Do not wait until the day that you have someone leaving to start recruitment.

These are very real areas that affect all of our families, but especially the Federal families.

Do you feel like that is happening from OPM now, with the new books that are coming out?

We need to look at a Special Salary Rate.

How do we get more agile in making decisions across our structure, whether it is United States Air Force or any of our other areas?

How do you make the decision?

The length of time that it takes to do onboard, we are losing out on some good people that want to be able to serve their fellow citizens in Federal service.

We need to find a way to be able to resolve this because this is repeated not only for the United States Air Force, but all across the Federal workforce.

Let me just ask, is the locality pay an easier trigger, an easier hurdle in that, or----

You are speaking out for millions of folks that are serving our Nation every single day, and I want you to know I appreciate that very much.

Oklahoma State University has done a very good job in their medical school of actually reaching out and recruiting people in rural areas to consider medical school.

Let us know on the progress on that, because that will be key for actually recruiting people to be able to go and stay.

There should be ongoing conversation, rather than hearing it again and again.

Now you also have to jump through a FOIA request hurdle on this as well.

We have to be able to streamline this process.

The greater number of hurdles that are placed there, the incentive is go somewhere else.

I think the primary solution is to get as much of the decision-making as possible in the hands of tribes.

Self-governance has proven to be an effective policy for the last 40 years.

That is unacceptable. I think the primary solution is to get as much of the decision-making as possible in the hands of tribes.

That is important to know how that is being fulfilled.

Not only is it more expensive to then do production in Indian Country, not only does the permitting take five times longer, but now if you are interested in buying that well, you can't just go get the information.

this Land and Water Conservation Fund has been around for 40 years. It has $20 billion built up in reserve. The authorization, as it is expired at this point, only changes the amount of money coming into it. We are still doing the same…

The focus cannot be off, obviously, international terrorism, which happened with ISIL and their plans and their intentional focus to try to penetrate the United States, but we know the narcoterrorists are penetrating us every single day.

Finding ways for us to be able to work together on this I think is extremely important.

It has been good. Thank you.