"The other one is the compensation and pension exams. That is our most requested thing, and they are having a tremendous backlog on these."
"I do not want to lose our veterans to--if we do, I can guarantee you, they might not come back."
"I could never figure how we got into so many hollers and up so many creeks and everything else."
"The fiscal year 2021 Omnibus Bill appropriated $1.9 billion to carry out the Secured and Trusted Communications Networks Reimbursement Program."
"How can we make sure that they are doing what is needed?"
"My recommendation would be, based on what we talked, with the Huaweis, and all the concerns we had, that that be a high priority of yours to ask in your budget?"
"So to me, that would be a high priority. That I think if you don't identify it, I can guarantee you, they won't come forward and just say: Oh, yes, we still think that is needed."
"I want to thank the witnesses during the previous round of questioning for validating a lot of what we are seeing in Rhode Island, that there is good, job-creating potential in offshore wind."
"We cannot allow the incumbents in the energy space to block that progress."
"will you commit to adhering closure to the traditional public comment periods for future rulemaking, which the people think they just need to get a proper cross-section?"
"So on that, really, my letter addresses those concerns, and if you all could give it to consideration as far as the Scope 3 emissions, it could really be devastating to the smaller operations."