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Certainly, lawmakers who drafted the ACA did not intend to punish small businesses for helping their employees with health care costs.

A veteran in need cannot wait for help and any incident where a veteran has trouble with the Veterans Crisis Line is simply unacceptable.

Veterans deserve more - they deserve quality, effective mental health care.

This is why I introduced this bill, to honor and thank our veterans, and let them know America supports them.

This bill requires the VA to create and implement documented plans to improve responsiveness and performance of the crisis line.

Veterans deserve more. They deserve quality, effective mental health care.

I urge adoption of the bill. I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Smith of Nebraska). The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Blum) that the House suspend the rules and pass the…

I would like to make Congresswoman Lawrence aware that I have no further speakers and I am prepared to close. I reserve the balance of my time.

These programs are too fragmented and overly complex for clients to navigate.

Everyone that works hard should have an opportunity to succeed.

I am intent on combating rural poverty.

I appreciate that answer, because in the end of this, it is a political question before this United States Congress.

I would submit that, if Congress decided to impeach perhaps the director of the IRS, that we could do so for any reason or no reason at all.

The American people never got a verdict from the United States Senate.

I wanted to make sure that I was listening carefully.

The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) was created with these goals in mind: to promote the development of affordable, low pollution, domestically produced fuel sources.

Energy is at the heart of the American economy. Energy powers our homes and businesses, and it is vital that America has access to the most affordable and most extensive sources of energy possible.

But I can't help but think that if we approach this issue in a bipartisan fashion, that we can find a path forward for an RFS that works for all the parties involved.