I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 418.

I think the notion that we're still at the point where neither DoD or VA has taken the lead--and I think that one of them has to have ownership for it.

I am pleased to yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Dunn), who introduced the bill.

I thank my colleague and friend across the aisle, Mr. Brown, for his work on this bill. It was a good collaboration. I appreciate his remarks tonight, and I appreciate what he did. I look forward to working with him in the future. Mr…

To see a small-town Colorado kid of the Eastern Plains grow up and run a laboratory with world-renowned scientists is pretty doggone exciting and says something great about this country.

the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh by Donald Trump has left this body and the American people deeply divided, but I think it has also united every American in the belief that this cannot be the standard for how the Senate or the Federal…

We don't value women. We don't have paid leave.

Lack of action is unintentionally killing us. It is a human rights imperative.

So I think it starts at the highest level of a policy environment and an environment that respects and cares for and prioritizes women and women's health and women and babies.

We need to make sure that all women have the kind of coverage they need.

thank you for the opportunity to be here to talk with my colleagues about the importance of the Land and Water Conservation Fund. I am pleased to be here. Over the past several months, the press conference Senator Burr referred to marking…

I think the first thing we can do is pass this bill.

What you can legislate is rules around training on implicit bias.

I was able to pass legislation out of this Committee to mandate that the VA provide mental health care to those with other-than-honorable discharges.

It was very hard to get answers from the VA, because they didn't want to admit that they had made a mistake.

I think suicide prevention amongst veterans occurs at the--as I said, I think it occurs at the community level.

I have no further requests for time on this legislation, and I reserve the balance of my time.

I appreciate the gentleman from Oklahoma yielding. Since the birth of our Nation, brave, selfless, and patriotic individuals have committed to putting their lives on the line to keep America safe, including along the border. No matter…