Bill Lee

It is great to see you, Madam Secretary, and as mentioned here by many people, thank you for taking the time to come visit my district and our State.

I personally have been pleased to see the Biden administration's commitments on this front with the Tribal Homelands Initiative and Secretary Haaland's new Tribal Advisory Committee.

I represent Nevada, and over 80 percent of our land is federally controlled, which means that tribal collaboration and participation in Federal lands management is such an important issue in my State.

I welcomed the establishment of the review committee in the NDAA.

Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, housing is an issue in southern Nevada.

It is clear that we need a broader solution here, or else our servicemembers will continue to struggle in a housing market that is often prohibitively expensive and difficult to navigate.

This runs contrary to the Air Force's requirement that first-term airmen reside in dorms for 3 years until they earn the requisite rank.

I represent southern Nevada, and I work closely with the leadership and the fine men and women at Creech and Nellis Air Force Bases.

I have been hearing from women in my community, particularly single mothers, that there are just far too many barriers for them to be able to access care at the VA.

I would love to see it roll out across the VA and take this type of approach.

We are committed, first of all, to making sure that we provide the best care for our veterans.

The goal should be zero.

As former chairwoman of the Technology Modernization Subcommittee, I obviously felt very strongly about the rollout of the Electronic Health Records Modernization.

I just wanted to make you aware that this community...would ask veterans who now receive care within their community to take transportation across the bridge into Arizona to Bullhead City.

I appreciate you taking another look at it.

I want to lay that out there but also make sure that we are not complacent.

I have heard from many families, that they shared some positive experiences with their privatized military housing, especially the widespread adoption of the bill of rights.

When we talk about our national security assets, nothing is more important than our men and women who serve and their families.

I want to direct some, I guess, higher-level questions to you.

I represent Las Vegas, Nevada. We have Creech and Nellis Air Force Base.

So I would like to know, in terms of your views, on the development of the implementation of this congressional directive with regard to children and the interagency council.

So just wanted to know how you envisioned this program being implemented?

And so following up on that, I would like to know the steps that your agency will be taking to comply with this requirement for its development.

I would like to respond to Dr. Harris, but I won't.

We should never become accustomed to acts of gun violence. We owe to the children in that classroom in Uvalde, the people shopping at Tops, and the parishioners at the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church to increase our efforts.