Moran, Jerry: Committee will come to order. Good afternoon. We are awaiting two additional members of the committee to have a quorum, but in order to give you some entertainment while you're waiting, I have, pardon me, Senator Kramer. I know. We'll begin our opening remarks and have that part of the process completed. This markup, this meeting of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs will come to order. As specified in the notice provided, committee members, we have 24 pieces of pending legislation on our agenda today. These bills are sponsored by senators from both parties and represent a number of bipartisan priorities. One of those bills that I'm pleased to sponsor is Senate Bill 410, the Love Lives On Act. The Love Lives On Act will allow surviving spouses of fallen service members to retain certain survivor benefits if they remarry before age of 55. Military service, as we know, is family service, and no one knows that more clearly than a survivor does. I note this today because several members of our committee are currently attending the dignified transfer of fallen service members at Dover Air Force Base. Our thoughts are with the survivors of those fallen heroes, and we advance these bills out of this committee today to make sure that service members, veterans, and their families receive the benefits and services they deserve. I am grateful to Ranking Member Blumenthal for working with me to advance these bills on our agenda, to advance them out of committee today with bipartisan support, and to the VA and our Veterans Service Organization partners for their work and support. I recognize that many of these bills may have significant costs associated with them. As we get final scores from Congressional Budget Office following today's markup, I remain committed to working with members of this committee, identifying appropriate offsets before moving these bills to the Senate floor. It's been our practice of this committee for quite a while that we have advanced bills out of the committee but have not brought them to the Senate floor without solving the offset issue. With that, I yield to the Ranking Member for any opening comments.
Blumenthal, Richard: Ranking Member Blumenthal. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to second your reference to the bipartisanship of today's package. Almost every member of this committee has had a part in one way or another in one or more of these bills, so I want to thank the entire committee for their work with me on the Molly Loomis Research for Descendants of Toxic Exposed Veterans, which requires research on the health effects on descendants of toxic exposed veterans. I think the more we know about the impact of toxins on our veterans, whether it's on bases in this country or on battlefields abroad, the more we appreciate how these invisible wounds of war take their toll, and we need to do even more to keep faith with them. This set of bills will expand veterans' access to prosthetics,...