Imagine what a President Trump is going to do with the precedent that this President has set forth.

I hope that they are consistent when a President Trump does the same thing that a President Obama does.

But judicial deference under Chevron weakens the separation of powers, threatening liberty.

And I need to remind you EPA had nothing at all to do with that.

For the fact that--this would seem to be something that you would be jumping, kicking, and screaming and, you know, making all kinds of noise about that 35 percent of the time they are not doing what they are supposed to do, and it is the…

It is not only time to pass the Toxic Exposures Act, but to utilize any and all means that will force the VA to stop wasting money and time.

VVA has worked very hard with Chairman Benishek and with Chairman Miller on the Toxic Exposures Research Act of 2016.

As I recall, presumptive conditions were frequently denied until VA was forced to resolve them under a Nehmer lawsuit; is that about right?

Secretary McDonald has said that he does not need any additional authority to do what HR 1769 directs him to do.

The critical point to understand is that veterans cannot receive VA care for symptoms of Gulf War Illness when the majority of those claims are denied by VA.

This hearing is the second part of the committee's two part series on the 25th Anniversary of the Persian Gulf War, a war in which I served.

Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the gentleman's yielding, and I am grateful for all of your work, Congressman Fortenberry, Congressman Vargas, and Congresswoman Eshoo. Sometimes people look at this House and think that all we do is fight and…

the invitation for this hearing specifically cited our interest in discussing, 'veterans who served in the Persian Gulf War,' and yet VA's testimony has lumped information from 1990 with the current OIF, OEF veterans in an apparent effort…

I am just really disappointed that the law was passed that--by the Congress of the United States, that a specific set of conditions was supposed to be presumptive and yet the VA does not seem to be following along.

I intend to continue to work with the department, my colleagues on both of these Subcommittees, and the stakeholders who took their time to present these concerns today, to ensure that veterans who are suffering from these serious diseases…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Ohio and the gentleman from New York for this opportunity to join with them this evening. I am especially proud to associate myself with the gentlewoman's remarks and all that the Congressional…

I appreciate it.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 2 minutes to close. I thank my good friend, Mr. Sherman, for his good, bipartisan, strong remarks expressed today during both of these debates on the war crimes tribunal and now on Mr. Fortenberry's genocide…