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Now is the time to stop making temporary fixes. This legislation permanently fixes this loophole for veterans.

Providing benefits to veterans driven to homelessness by domestic violence is something we all should support--and have supported in the past.

Providing veterans with the care they need and deserve continues to be a top priority of mine and most of us on this committee.

This commonsense bill gives the VA the legislative authority, the fix it needs to follow through the original proposed rule.

This important bill would expand veterans' access to certain healthcare services and allow former servicemembers to receive those services from local providers.

I commend you for that. And clearly that has informed your agenda here today to make sure all of our Native students are provided with the best educational opportunities possible.

Too many schools lack adequate infrastructure and educational resources, compromising the health, safety, and future postsecondary and professional opportunities of the children they are intended to serve.

Unfortunately, the federal government is failing to keep its promise to these vulnerable children.

It is paramount that we uphold our promise to provide Native American children an excellent education that preserves their tribal heritage.

The state of BIE education is abysmal.

One of my concerns is just what you referred to, which is having to go through Alimport, the state agency there.

I think there would be an immediate benefit.

I am a big supporter of increasing American exports to world markets, and I am intrigued by the possibility of opening the Cuban market.

What can we do from a policy perspective to better ensure that the benefits of trade reach the Cuban people?

That is the way the Cuban people benefit, that our products are able to go directly to the Cuban people.

These are our families who work hard every day and have the same American dreams, though, that everybody else has.

I used to serve, Mr. Woods, on a school board, which can occasionally be a challenging endeavor, as they say.

I voted for Dodd-Frank, but I voted for it to provide safety and stability, not to make it impossible for certain markets to have loans.