Jennifer Wexton

I don't think it is hyperbole to say it would be cataclysmic.

I don't know the chairman very well, but I expect that if you can't be at home with your constituents you would much rather be here on the Hill leading a bipartisan committee identifying and solving problems with our native communities.

So my concern is that we may have a facility or a tower that looks like it is fully staffed on paper, but meanwhile there is somebody there who is a trainee and the actual certified controllers have to work overtime and 6-day a week shifts…

I am really, really sorry that you are not going to be staying with the FAA permanently.

Has Leesburg's participation in the pilot program given FAA valuable information about the remote tower program and what the drawbacks and benefits of it could be?

I think it is really great the way you guys are doing that, and I think it will really hopefully pay dividends to you.

I only have to get in my car and drive about an hour to get here.

It is made be very sad to see that the individuals from the 10th District who are attending there sent us pictures of what the facilities there look like.

I'm concerned by the slow pace of progress made by DOT and FRA on the implementation of the project.

I appreciate that they are working together with the Contract Tower Program in 2020, construction of a physical tower.

I would like to ask you a little bit about the Leesburg Airport.

It would have been really embarrassing if I invited you twice and you hadn't shown up.

I also want to tell you, I kind of like having my own little table down here.

If nothing changes in the next 15 years, Harvard's Joint Center on Housing estimates that an estimated 2.4 million older adults lose access to affordable housing.

I was very, very pleased that we finally got that done, and included significant resources for victims of and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Too often we have seen people denied housing and forced to pay more for housing due to their race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, and other protected characteristics.

I do want to commend HUD for everything you do in the fostering futures program.

It is nice to have you back, and I know that you don't miss us too much here in the House of Representatives.

Mr. Chairman seemed very sympathetic to your budget plates in his opening statement.

I think it would make sense for you guys to get that.

And thank you also for whatever role you played in helping the DOJ do the right thing and declare Howie's death a line-of-duty death.

I hope that now people are more aware of some of those good things that we have going on here.

I just hope I get to stick around here long enough to see it happen, come to fruition.

I used to serve in the State legislature, and we had something called the Virginia Legislative Information System, which was fantastic.

I would recommend that you take a look at Virginia's V3 Program, because we have a lot of veterans coming out to live in Virginia.