I support the work being done by Chairman Chabot and Ranking Member Velazquez to increase contracting opportunities for small businesses.

I think longitudinal studies like the Millennium Cohort Study, which in essence is a study that looks at what does military service do to you healthwise--I think they are all extremely important.

I would just urge the administration to respect this committee.

And all of that compiled together results in some indirect pressure on the Assad regime to consider negotiations in a serious way.

It sounds like we could do a better job at that than we are.

We need to better understand how that money has been used; what, if any, results have come from that research; where are there potential breakthroughs, and what areas may not be as productive; what gaps may exist that should be addressed…

I have a lot of biotech in my district. And I was speaking to one of my CEOs just last night who said that they are close to finding a genetic marker for PTSD.

I want to expand on something that my colleague, Mr. Keating, touched on.

Since 2004, when Congress first directed the Secretary of Defense to conduct a study of the mental health services available to service members at the time, Congress has provided more than $1.5 billion in funding for PTSD- and TBI-related…

My colleague had to leave, but Congresswoman Shea-Porter is from New Hampshire where the opioid crisis has been particularly severe.

As post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury began to emerge as prominent injuries from the conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq, and stories of service members facing difficulty in obtaining appropriate care became more…

I am concerned about the relationship between TBI and CTE [chronic traumatic encephalopathy].

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the service and advocacy of Mr. Paul Jamushian, as the 16th Congressional District's Hero of the Month in California. As a descendant of both martyrs and survivors of the Armenian genocide, Paul has…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to join the Armenian community in commemorating the 102nd anniversary of the Armenian genocide. On April 24, 1915, the Ottoman Empire began committing atrocities that would result in the first genocide of the 20th…

The killing should stop. That should be our goal and we should be willing to work with Russia.

Erdogan, even after this incredible power grab that he has just participated in, a corrupt election that gives him the power to move that country.

Erdogan is doing more damage to our national security by his basically power grab inside his own country.

There is a moral equivalency between dropping a bomb on people and killing those same people with gas.