I hope you understand that this Committee wants to work with you on it. We want this to be a success.

Texas is proud to be home to the most women veterans of any state, and yet wait times for women's health care services can be longer than wait times for other services.

I think that we are going to have to continue to change and grow our VHA services to deal with our new community of veterans and especially here in Texas with us having the most women veterans, it is a big issue for us.

Thank you for that commitment and for coming to north Texas.

I have the honor of representing the Great State of Texas. We are home to the most women veterans of any state, and I am very proud of our 181,000 women veterans who have served us.

As my colleagues have noted we are of course experiencing a crisis of military sexual assault with claims likely to increase on VBA and VHA going forward.

Going forward, we would like to see our subject matter experts, our 737 pilots in our safety and training program at the Allied Pilots Association invited to future certification proceedings on all future designs.

I want to first express my deepest condolences to the families of those lost in these two crashes.

I think it is critical that we not ignore Africa and that we counter Chinese and Russian influence in Africa.

I welcome the legislation introduced by my colleague Harley Rouda and my fellow Texan, John Cornyn, in the Senate.

I represent Dallas, which is home to Southwest Airlines and American Airlines, two of our best airlines here in the country.