there are basic needs that are still not being met in rural fire departments out in our state

Even porcupines make love.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I am not an attorney either, Mr. Speaker. I am a physician. As a matter of fact, I am an obstetrician. I think, of all the professions impacted by malpractice issues, perhaps, Mr. Speaker, obstetricians…

I am concerned this will negatively impact farmers and ranchers, folks in Kansas who utilize that risk management tool.

I certainly want that to occur.

People have different opinions. And they have a lot of ideological opinions as well. But it's time to put that aside and move.

This weekend, while meeting with Kansas farmers during wheat harvest, I visited with a family where one spouse farmed full time and the other worked from home, an increasingly common arrangement, especially in the tough farm economy we…

one of the things that it suggests to me that increasing funding for NIH research, science brings new knowledge

if we can devote additional resources into finding cures and delays in treatments of diseases, it's one of the suggestions I've made for a long time, we can do a significant benefit to the cost of healthcare in the United States.

I understand that my House colleagues reduced major construction account in their mark by $102 million, which lines up with cutting funding for 2018 for three out of your six major construction cemetery projects.

In my time in Congress, those arenas in which that bipartisanship still exists and works well has diminished.

Choice was reinstated.

Continue to send veterans with eligibility for the Veterans Choice program.

I was fearful that you would disagree with me about Senator Tester and I would have to repeat that he is correct.

I take this development very seriously because I think the VA is headed on a different path than what you assured me they were on.

I do not know how we have a Choice program that works for veterans.

the actual practice at the VA is another.

I suggested to you that you withdraw your mandate that Choice go away.