I also heard you looked into the Bien Hoa Airbase and the dioxin remediation project we are now embarking on.

in this week when new Pulitzer Prizes were awarded to outstanding reporters and courageous news organizations, I want to take a moment, on behalf of all Vermonters, to recognize and thank an earlier Pulitzer Prize winning journalist…

the magnitude of atrocities and devastation in Syria caused by ISIS and the Assad regime, with support from Russia and Iran, is appalling. When this calamity began in 2011, I doubt anyone predicted it would come to this: hundreds of…

Have you or anyone in your Department recommended that we rescind any of the money we recently appropriated for housing and community development proposals?

Congress clearly rejected in the fiscal year 2018 Omnibus the President's proposed cuts to housing and community development programs.

the Administration has proposed elimination of Community Development Block Grants, the HOME Investment Partnerships, the Rural Capacity Building Grants, and harsh rental reforms.

It is clear that you and I have very different visions of what the budget for the Department of Housing and Urban Development should be.

Do you intend to recommend any rescissions?

are you folks just totally tone-deaf to what's going on?

We Vermonters think when you make a deal you keep it.

I believe when you strike an agreement, you should stick to it.

Commanders in these units... have better access to ranges, better interoperability with their active duty counterparts.

I am concerned about both the Guard and Reserves, but in the full time services.

They have to have special authority for that, would they not?

We can do law enforcement duties. But there is no intention on this particular case.

What structural or institutional barriers both within the Bureau and the Department remain to achieving that objective?

The fact that our Active component and Reserve components... are training together, planning together, working together, and some day will be flowing together.

I do not know of any precedent for this. I am asking, what circumstances?

I am proud they are going to be the first Guard unit in the country to fly the F-35.

I think it is extremely important.

The care, and welfare, and wellbeing of the men and women in uniform are all of our most important tasks to maintain.

I know firsthand from the members of Vermont's own Air Guard and Army Guard the sacrifices these men and women make every day.

Is it safe to say that there is no service that does not have a concern about PTSD?

I thank the Chair. I am a proud Vermonter. My family has lived there for over 150 years. Yesterday, Vermont set an example for the Congress, and for the Nation. A Democratically controlled legislature and a Republican Governor, in a rural…

I am disappointed that you chose not to make any mention of this issue in your written testimony.