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What we seek to do is to mitigate the financial risks of the chronic and catastrophic illnesses to the Active-Duty family households.

It is about your leadership on setting those national standards.

We are losing 22 veterans a day to suicide. In the Active Duty, we lost 132 young men and women in combat in 2013. We lost 475 to suicide, almost four times as many.

We are asking that you give it statutory power to actually implement the recommendations.

And, not to interrupt you----but just to say, and they are extraordinarily concerned.

The only thing that we want, we expect out of this, is just enough to meet practical needs.

We want to succeed and we want to succeed in a way that our partners and friends... look at and say, it makes sense.

I am hopeful we can get to a good deal, but the question is, what is a good deal for the United States?

It is an honor to be on this Committee.

I think the voters in November sent a very strong message to all of us on both sides: 'Get it done; get something done.'

To get this done, in my opinion, based on my experience, it has to be an all-in. It has to be above partisan politics. It has to be done in a bipartisan way.

I am a strong supporter of trade, and I want to affirm that some of the reservations that have been expressed here by my colleagues relative to making sure that we have a level playing field and that we have established the rules and they…

Thank you, Chairman.

When we talk about vulnerable populations, as we have built our programs, it is something that--and I have some disagreement with my State colleagues on this--nobody disagrees on the importance of getting this right.

I understand their concern, but it is 2015 and no one should be left behind, especially our most vulnerable neighbors.

In order to ensure ready responders, we must make certain that adequate programs are available and that sufficient access is available to those training programs.

Ensuring timely and efficient emergency response whenever and wherever disaster strikes is critical.

I am very pleased to return as ranking member of the subcommittee and, like Chairman Barletta, I look forward to continuing the good working relationship that we both share.