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Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott) for expressing Virginia's view. From California, it is, whoa, wait a minute, let's be careful. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________
Well, let me make sure I understand. I was 60 a while ago, but let's say I am 60 and I am getting a health insurance policy under ObamaCare, the Affordable Care Act. I may have to pay three times what a 25-year-old pays, but under the…
The fundamental nature of insurance is you gather a large population of healthy, not-so-healthy, and perhaps some very sick people into a large population, and the cost is spread across the entire population. What we may be ceding here in…
Mr. Speaker, that is exactly right, and I see that in my district. I have a large rural district in California. And, even today, there are areas where it is difficult to find a physician to get medical services. This is one of the things…
Mr. Speaker, I rise this evening to cover several very, very important points. Tomorrow is International Women's Day, and I was going to talk about the role of women in our society, talk about my five daughters and what they have been…
Mr. Scott, thank you so very much. You bring to this discussion a very important perspective as the ranking member of the Education and the Workforce Committee. You have that perspective of understanding the effect of this legislation on…
The gentleman is correct on that. I was just looking at some statistics here a moment ago about the shifting of cost. Under the Affordable Care Act, there are many, many benefits for Medicare. Leaving aside the Medicaid population for a…
But the hiring freeze and the fact that some of your VISN staff aren't exempt, that has complicated your ability to do your job.
I just want to make sure that language is not a barrier to them receiving the proper benefits, veteran services that they are, you know, entitled to.
These men and women have defended our country with honor, yet their lives continue to be disproportionately affected.
It just is mind-boggling that we are still, you know, in sort of this bureaucratic maze.
I think the underlying issue in all of this, to me, is our IT systems.
A recusal is an admission that something was wrong.
He has proved that he is unqualified and unfit to serve in that position of trust.
Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to rolling back workplace safety protections for American workers. This use of the Congressional Review Act would endanger employees and throw away…
Budgets can be values-based documents without being ideological manifestos, and I would hope that the burden of governing fosters a sense of pragmatism about the value of government investment.
H.R. 295 would reduce our defense civilian workforce by 15% by FY 2028 through the flexibility of attrition as well as giving more weight to performance in a Reduction in Force.
