Mr. Chairman, thank you so much for your leadership, and also to the ranking member.

I just want to see if you can assign somebody I can work with and the committee can work with, because I do intend to add fundings with the help of the Appropriations Committee members to address third-world conditions called colonias.

I would rather have inspectors there. I would rather not have any problems with any visas.

I don't think we can dip ourselves out of that problem.

I am looking at your testimony. And, without going into details, I would ask you... recommendations that we can follow up to help you enforce this improper payments...

The last time you provided these reports, Admiral, you know, we had X amount of countries in South America, 19... now we have 19 out of the 33 countries that have joined the One Belt One Road Initiative.

My issue has been how do we explain that the United States--and I am very supportive of the military--but how do we spend more money than China, Russia, and the other countries combined and it still seems like they, with less money than we…

We have the influence of Iran in South America. Not only do we have the influence of them, but we also have the Russian influence in countries.

My concern is that, as we are looking at other places of the world, in our own backyard we have got--starting to get a heavy influence of Russians, but mainly Chinese.

Can you tell us a little bit about prep schools and how you all use prep schools to get diversity into your academies?

But we really need to start doing this because we are going to wake up like they did back in the 1980s where they said, 'Oh, my God, look what has happened in Nicaragua. The Sandinistas have taken over.'

I think the maps that you have provided to us to show where the criminal organizations are coming from and how they are affecting us, whether they are bringing in drugs or people, they are there.