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Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 2288, the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act of 2017. This important legislation will update and streamline the bureaucratic nightmare that is the disability appeals process. This bill…
The budget request maintains the IG funding as the same as fiscal year 2017.
I want to continue to work with you on that, as well.
Mr. Speaker, I appreciate Mrs. Walorski doing an outstanding job with this bill. The chairman and the ranking member are champions of veterans. Again, I rise today in support of H.R. 467, the VA Scheduling Accountability Act, because all…
Mr. Speaker, this truly is a bipartisan committee under the able leadership of Chairman Roe and Ranking Member Walz. Again, I am proud to serve on this committee. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 1329, the Veterans'…
Do you believe the IG has sufficient resources to investigate the amounts of claims they receive?
I have a bill that I filed, HR1994, the Vocational Education and Training Enhancement for Reintegration Assistance Act, called the Veterans' Act.
If we really want to prevent suicides we have to get to homeless veterans.
The sooner the better--so we can get started.
Mr. Speaker, I thank Mr. Sires for such an eloquent statement on behalf of the beleaguered and embattled Venezuelan people. Before I yield so proudly to Mr. Castro of Texas, another member of our Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, I would…
Mr. Speaker, we are so pleased that Mr. Castro has, once again, joined us in this battle for human rights, for democracy, for justice, for the rule of law, in our hemisphere. His voice is a valiant one that needs to be heard and is always…
Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 8 o'clock and 2 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, Wednesday, May 24, 2017, at 10 a.m. for morning-hour…
I want to applaud the leadership and help of all of our congressional subcommittee in bringing attention to all of these terrible situations throughout the world.
Mr. Speaker, I am so grateful to Mr. Albio Sires, my good friend from New Jersey, the ranking member of our Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere in the Committee on Foreign Affairs for joining me tonight for this Special Order regarding…
Mr. Speaker, today we have a new Trump budget and more broken promises. If you recall on May 7, 2015, the President said: ``I was the first and only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and…
Please share with the President that the folks in Florida's first congressional district who voted for the President are proud.
I never mentioned the word or the name Israel, never mentioned that during our conversation. They're all saying I did. So you had another story wrong.