Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for the great work. We are going to miss his leadership next year when he goes into other pursuits. He will be sorely missed, and veterans will miss him. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak of a missed…

I do not think you are going to get to the cultural shifts and changes that need to really permeate deep into the organization.

I think we all can agree and we all do agree that the VA needs a cultural shift and a cultural change.

It seems like that is the emphasis and rather than, you know, on the principle and the accountability.

Mr. Chair, I rise to speak in favor of my amendment No. 5, to improve the accountability provisions found within H.R. 5620. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Strike section 7…

I am very concerned about the significant premium increases that we have been discussing, especially the ones that are going to be going up in 2017 on the Illinois health insurance exchange.

Is it Mr. Redmer who--do you have a comment on that?

So is this a State-by-State issue or is there anything that can be done at the Federal level?

So while some States are empowered to provide relief from the skyrocketing rates for their citizens, others like Illinois, we don't have to enable regulators to reject these astronomical rate increases.

I thank the Congresswoman from Arizona, my distinguished colleague on the House Financial Services Committee. I thank the gentlewoman for calling attention to all the Members in the House in this hallowed Chamber on this very, very…

Mr. Speaker, earlier this summer, I was proud to vote in favor of a package of bills intended to crack down on the epidemic of heroin use and opioid abuse across our Nation. I was even happier to see that legislation pass the House and…

Mr. Speaker, later today on this House floor, we will be considering what I would very accurately describe as an opportunity bill. We hear the media talk about how in the middle of this campaign election season that Congress really is not…

Mr. Speaker, it is my honor to recognize the chairman of the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education that has jurisdiction on this bill. I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Rokita).

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, career and technical education helps men and women across the country achieve the American Dream of finding and seizing opportunities to work hard and to succeed within the…

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Wilson).

Mr. Speaker, I am now pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. Foxx), also a leader on the Committee on Education and the Workforce. She serves as our chair of the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce…

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Roe), a classmate of mine and also another leader in the Education and the Workforce Committee and the chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and…

Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to take a point of personal privilege just as a chance to recognize Chairman Kline of the Education and the Workforce Committee and to thank him for his leadership in education, for truly making a difference…