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This issue is critical to ending veteran homelessness given the significant population of veterans with PTSD.

I wish that people would just come to their senses and do what was right for the American people.

I would anticipate that the VA would continue to push for this because I think that, at this point, especially those of us who represent rural areas--and basically all of the neighbor islands, apart from Oahu, are rural areas.

I am also pleased to see the creative use of telemedicine, as I have supported legislation to expand VA's utilization of telemedicine.

What we have to do is make sure that they now complement what you have now in your hardware with up-to-speed, up-to-date software.

I would really urge us to see if we can sit down, whatever all of you think is a good group, to just try to follow this up.

I think it becomes really important for us to work on--it is almost like diving out of the plane together.

We have to make sure that whatever that something is, it is going to work.

You are going to need the money. You can't do a long-term project without knowing you have a stable source of funding to help it happen.

I hope that we recognize it as a chance for us to help the Social Security Administration do what it must for the tens of millions of people who rely on the agency...

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California will be postponed. Amendment No. 29 Offered by Mr. Peters The Acting CHAIR. It is…

May I ask how much time is remaining? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining.

My amendment strikes section 430 from the underlying bill. Section 430 blocks efforts by the Environmental Protection Agency to ensure that industries which handle hazardous substances set aside sufficient funds, in the form of bonds or…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 149, strikes lines 18 through 25. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 820, the gentleman…

I would like to thank the chairman for yielding time to speak today on this legislation. I also want to thank the chairman of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure for his excellent leadership that he has shown this Congress…

Obviously for noncontiguous states that is a little hard to show, and I think it really disadvantages Alaska and Hawaii.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California will be postponed. Amendment No. 4 Offered by Mr. Ellison The Acting CHAIR. It is…

Can the Chairman let me know how much time remains? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from New York has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining.

Secret money is killing our democracy. More and more, our elections are being driven by organizations that are receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in secret donations. We don't know and can't find out who is giving all this money…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Strike section 127. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 794, the gentleman from California (Mr…

If the United States chooses to leave the alliance and convince our allies that we have--that 28 sovereign countries, working with the Arabs, in particular, who show signs of wanting to develop a NATO-like organization, we can do an awful…

NATO has to become a more agile organization, and it has to become more responsive to the needs that are being--the threats that are coming our way, collectively.

I think the next President should see if he or she could convene a summit fairly early on in his or her tenure.

We have two separate issues. We have changing the system for the future, and that is the reform that is in Senator Blumenthal's draft bill.