So we want to talk extinction. This is extinction of fishermen.

I do not see how their economic vitality is being taken into consideration at all here.

Thank you, Chairman Coffman. And thank you for your service in the Gulf War. We're all grateful for that.

I regret that people were treated this way, and I think we have a bipartisan support here to do better going forward.

So, add 25 years, we're coming up on this cohort of veterans being 50 years or older, and I'm wondering, is there any action being undertaken by the VA--or could we encourage you to do that--where we would be providing lung cancer…

I was told that I had the lungs of a 90-year-old smoker.

We know from the IOM and just generally that cancers have a long latency period, 20 to 30 years in the case of lung cancer.

My goal here is two-fold. One is to make sure that we have a sufficient understanding to help the veterans from the Gulf War era.

It's so very important that we develop clear goals to ensure that our veterans receive access to health care.

I think we can all agree today that Gulf War illness is not psychosomatic.

I believe it's incumbent upon us to learn as much as we can about what our Nation is asking from our servicemembers.

I think that there's so much promise in the mechanistic-based treatment, as well as the symptomatically focused treatment.

We need funding. I would ask any of you just to comment on the shortage we have of treatment, with the overwhelming needs for treatment.

But put me in the column with Senators Cardin and Corker that says that is not the way we ought to be solving our budget problems.

I appreciate your tireless efforts to promote American values around the world.

One of the most horrible outcomes of the civil war in Syria has been the refugee crisis that has been created by that.

I believe the department's initial reading of that language was inconsistent with what our intent was when we passed that bill.

I am the co-Chair with my Republican colleague, Mr. Westerman, of the Biomass Caucus here in the Congress.