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Clearly, this problem has gone on far too long.

I think it certainly encourages the kind of activities that we are scrutinizing today.

This is the time to make real changes.

The Veterans Health Care System is a promise we made to America's veterans--that we will take care of them in return for their service and sacrifice.

I am committed to preserving and expanding the remittances lifeline to Somalia.

I completely agree with you. I hope we are all on the same page on that.

We need to get rid of sequestration because it has done so much damage to our readiness and other aspects of the military.

I cannot understand why we do not allow generic drugs to be sold in our commissaries.

I think it is really important to educate our servicemembers, explain to them that the cuts that are being made are not mainly coming on their backs.

I rise in support of the Minimum Wage Fairness Act because it is time to give everyone a fair shot. More and more States are voting to raise the minimum wage. Last week, the Hawaii State legislature passed a bill to raise the minimum wage…

Growing up, my mother was a single parent. She raised three children by herself. I know what it is like to run out of money at the end of the month, what it is like when every dime matters. The minimum wage is a poverty wage. Today, the…

If you go too far in that direction, you close off good people just trying to do legitimate transactions.

I will keep my remarks short because I know there are others who want to speak on why we need to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10. I will focus on Hawaii. In Hawaii, nearly 100,000 women would get a raise if we were to do this…

By direction of the Democratic Caucus, I offer a privileged resolution (H. Res. 531) and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 531 Resolved, That the following named Members be and are…

I hope that there is a way that we can better track the experiences of our veterans.

The post-9/11 GI Bill has been an outstanding program.

Madam Chairwoman, I would like to request that all of our Services send to our subcommittee the latest of standard surveys and any modifications that are made to the surveys.

The men and women who do serve need to be treated fairly.

I think, as a general proposition, that it behooves all of us to care about the graduation rates throughout our country.

A huge percentage of them are not able to join. Maybe 75 percent--that's a number that I came across in some other setting--are not qualified, a lot of them due to the fact that they may not have high school degrees.

Only 14 percent of youth are inclined to serve in the military.

If it goes down very significantly to the point where we may be having to close some commissaries, that might happen, that could happen?

Right now, the difference between the prices at commissaries and what the prices would be outside, although we have a lot of competition for lower prices through Costco and other places, is about 30 percent right now, isn't it?

Would there be some differentiation that would occur in these price increases?