Our committee over the course of the last two Congresses passed 202 bipartisan recommendations.

If there are things that we can do from this subcommittee, I think we are here to do it.

I just plead with you to take a look at what is happening in our region, to look at the impact on readiness, on sailors, and on their families, because, you know, sitting across from a sailor who miscarried after waiting for 8 hours to get…

the concerns of my community just aren't being heard.

We have heard pretty consistent concerns in our neck of the woods just regarding how hard these shipyard periods can be for our sailors, and I just want to make sure we are doing all we can.

I hope so. We are meeting with the new DHA leader later today, and I think my message primarily is going to be our region is being failed right now.

I really think this is a readiness issue.

For my State to meet the demand for housing, we would have to build about 50,000 new homes a year just to keep up with demand.

The average wait time is between 3 months and a year.

I missed a vote today. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 107. Mr. McCAUL. Mr. Speaker, had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 107. Stated against:

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One of the biggest lessons I have learned over the past 3.5 years is that if we want things to work differently, we have to be willing to do things differently.

I hope future reformers take note of that because more folks recognize that it is possible for Democrats and Republicans to find areas of agreement, to collaborate in good faith, and to produce results on behalf of the American people the…

I can't emphasize enough how the processes and norms that we have developed along the way have been key to our success as a committee.

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my plea is for more robust communication to the impacted communities.

I have been on this subcommittee for 6 years. I don't think we have had a hearing related to this subject where I haven't raised concerns about reduction in billets and reductions in services provided at Naval Hospital Bremerton.

I appreciate the Navy's goal of increasing readiness to counter threats from our adversaries like Russia and China.

I don't know what analysis is happening that is driving some of these decisions, but I am just concerned about the military families who actually need to make sure they are getting the services that they require.

Does the Navy still have a plan to divest over 5,100 healthcare billets?

I think it does an excellent job encapsulating the problem we face today that the Army both contributes to and is threatened by, the extreme weather events caused by climate change.

I was pleased to hear both of you say very positive things about that, about the importance of that in terms of the capacity of the Navy to meet its mission.