Mr. Speaker, I thank Chairman Takano for yielding. I rise today in support of my bipartisan legislation, H.R. 7277, the Improving Oversight of Veterans Community Care Providers Act. This legislation will help ensure that the Department of…

Thank you, Chair Ossoff, and I want to thank you and Ranking Member Johnson for holding this hearing and for the investigation.

Based on that testimony it seems to me, and based on the report, that the women detained at the ICDC have received a far lower level of care than they should have received.

Absolutely. I find this to be a grave miscarriage of justice that these women were exposed to this type of treatment.

Your courage is really remarkable, and you are making a difference for others.

Oh, look, there's no doubt there are threats to democracy. There's no doubt that's a serious issue and of course we've got to take it on.

People have to just take the heat down here. I mean, this is America. This is one of the most amazing places on the planet earth. We should all wake up and be grateful.

It's not just about former President Trump. It’s about – I mean, people are getting upset about inflation.

The average voter is worried about 2020, the average voter, it's a serious issue of course, but it is not what people are going to be voting on in the next week.

You cannot change Washington if you keep sending the same people back.

Madam Speaker, I rise in support of my bipartisan legislation, H.R. 8510, the Strengthening Whistleblower Protections at the Department of Veterans Affairs Act. It is a bill that improves policies and procedures to better protect VA…

What are the other ways that we are hoping to apply pressure, increase the impact of the sanctions, for both of you really, as we think about going forward?

the toughest sanctions ever on a country, and they were going to have certain impacts, and we have not seen the full impact

I appreciate that and I am sorry to interrupt, but my question is really more what are we doing to respond to that?

I think the focus now has to be keeping the Senate majority with the Democrats so that we don’t see a nationwide abortion ban.

the Republicans are pursuing their ultimate goal which is a nationwide abortion ban.

Don Bolduc is incredibly extreme, whether it is election denial or whether it is his support for a national abortion ban and he is trying to mislead Granite Staters and really hide his extreme record.

We have people like Don Bolduc running for office, saying they want to represent the state of New Hampshire in the United States Senate when they would take away the rights of half of our population.