Vision injuries have impacted 58,000 OIF and OEF service members according to DOD, hearing loss has been diagnosed in over 189,000 veterans from OIF and OEF according to VA.

Last year, this Congress directed the Comptroller General to conduct a review of women-specific health services and treatment.

Frankly, I think this plan is wrongheaded.

I look forward, as well, to hearing from Assistant Secretary Woodson on his views on the status of the military healthcare system.

what is the impact to the DHP if Congress does not authorize the TRICARE fee increases?

Their access to quality health care should not be added to their plights.

Our military personnel and their families consistently exceed expectations under tremendous strains and pressures.

The Affordable Care Act is giving vital benefits for millions of Americans.

We are living up to the promises of this law.

Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, over 100 million Americans no longer have to worry about their coverage being revoked.

The Republican budget would repeal the important Affordable Care Act provisions that expand health care coverage and prevent the worst abuses performed by the insurance industry.

Thirty million Americans would be covered under the Affordable Care Act who are not now covered, and I assume that they will go without coverage if the act is repealed?

There is no Republican alternative to the Affordable Care Act benefits. They offer only repeal.

I represent the number one agricultural county in the nation, Fresno County, over $6 billion.

You need a unifying ideology to keep an elite, and an entire society together.

We ought to look at reauthorizing in the farm bill the work that the USDA Rural Development has done in California.

It is important for this Subcommittee to look at programs that may be duplicative.

I think it is important for the Subcommittee to always exercise its role in appropriate oversight.