Can I get you to get in touch with the Puget Sound VA Medical Center and find out why these wait times are so long?

Just a couple quick points. First of all, there is no legality issue here. This policy is clearly and unequivocally legal. As the quotes from the Hyde amendment said earlier, the Hyde amendment says that the government can't pay for an…

Our military is the best in the world. It is the best in the world today with those policies. Continuously undercutting and trashing our military as being weak and woke is hurting recruitment. I will grant you that. It is completely wrong…

I will take a minute, just in case anybody who is out there listening has been interested in the concept of strikes. I think it is important to say that striking is not an inherently bad or inherently good thing. It is not a failure of our…

the Puget Sound VA, which treats, by the way, more than 65,000 veterans, doesn't, does not have a full-time person in this position.

Veterans who have experienced homelessness are four times more likely than other veterans to attempt suicide.

the fact that nearly a third of women veterans experience sexual assault or harassment while serving our country in uniform is really staggering.

Before the gentlewoman leaves, I would engage in a colloquy with her for a couple of minutes. I know she has been on the picket lines with workers. She has talked to striking workers. Can she tell us some of what she is hearing about what…

We have seen workers standing up to corporate greed and fighting for better rights on the job, good benefits, and fair wages. Today, our Congressional Progressive Caucus Special Order hour is devoted to this topic and to our solidarity…

last week, an overwhelming 91 Senators voted to begin debate on the bipartisan appropriations package--a package of bills that each passed the Appropriations Committee unanimously. But then a few Senators decided to object to a run-of-the…

I thank the gentlewoman so much for her leadership, and I thank her for sharing that. I think it is really important to remember that these are the workers who actually saved the auto industry by giving up defined benefit pension plans, by…

I thank the majority leader. Let's be clear. The three bills in that package are not partisan bills. This was not some secretive process. We drafted these bills through an open, bipartisan process. We held hearings. We held markups for the…

There are 33,000 veterans experiencing homelessness in the U.S., 1,500 of them in my State.

Veterans who have experienced homelessness are four times more likely than other veterans to attempt suicide.

We also need to make sure that we are utilizing our knowledge of risk factors and engaging with these veterans.

Can I get you to get in touch with the Puget Sound VA Medical Center and find out why these wait times are so long?

women who are survivors of military sexual trauma are nine times more likely to develop PTSD than other women veterans.

I thank Representative DeSaulnier for his comments. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Velazquez), the ranking member of the Small Business Committee and a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus executive…