We respectfully urge that you support S.1053 and give us the flexibility to complete this important Congressionally authorized project.

the projected $144 million in the president's FY 2010 budget request will allow for expansion of the GPD program

H.R. 2504 introduced by Representative Teague of New Mexico would do that.

I am Harry Teague from New Mexico and while I was home on the Memorial break, we actually had dedication of a 20-room facility for homeless veterans, a transition home of sorts.

The people of New Mexico want you to do everything in your power to payback the taxpayers.

I support efforts to get the auto companies back on their feet. But I am concerned about the process.

I agree we need to ask tough questions regarding dealership closings, and there is no doubt that cars have become an integral part of the American story.

We need to keep those communities in mind as we move forward.

I support anything that works to reduce CO2, to reduce costs for the taxpayer, to reduce imports and energy from abroad, make us more energy independent.

I simply think that it is wrong to expect someone who has served their country, and been injured as a result of that service, be penalized because we, as a government, are putting them back in uniform.

I would like to take this time to thank the staff members of the Economic Opportunity Subcommittee who lent their expertise during the drafting of this bill and thank Chairwoman Herseth Sandlin and Ranking Member Boozman for the…

We have an obligation to help those who have defended our country by giving them the tools they need to rejoin the civilian workforce.

I think there is a real argument for looking at the way you develop the criteria to do that.

I believe that this bill represents something that we can always use more of in government, a little common sense.

H.R. 2180 would amend title 38 of the United States Code to waive VA home loan fees for certain veterans with service-connected disabilities that have been recalled to active service.

H.R. 2180 represents a common sense solution to a problem that I do not think anyone anticipated.

You start funding the technologies right now, to get them in place, put the legislation and the reductions in place in 2012 or thereafter, you can create the jobs now and have the technology so that there will not be this big bump in the…

I believe that is absolutely right.