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I very much thank the chairman of the committee, the gentleman from California, and the ranking member, the gentleman from Tennessee, for their leadership on the House Veterans' Affairs Committee. Mr. Chair, I would like to thank my…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 3, line 14, insert ``, including telemental health services furnished by the Department'' after…

I thank the ranking member of the committee and my distinguished colleague from American Samoa.

I thank my colleague very much for her comments. Madam Speaker, I just realized that today, this Special Order, we had four speakers, three of whom are immigrants: the gentleman from New York, the gentleman from Illinois, and this…

We are not creating big government here. We are trying to create increased wages for those like you, and I am very proud to do so.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 6, line 13, insert ``(increased by $15,000,000)'' after the dollar amount. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant…

I have no further statements to make. I ask for support of my amendment and the underlying bill, H.R. 268, and I yield back the balance of my time The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from the…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 44, line 23, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $16,000,000)''. The Acting CHAIR…

Again, I encourage support for this bill, and having no further speakers, I yield back the balance of my time.

I ask for support of this legislation. I just want to say if it is really 4,600 miles, then that is the equivalent of a round trip between San Francisco and Honolulu, a distance which I frequently fly and don't actually enjoy sitting down…

Lacking a meaningful deterrent, there has been an intensification of aggressive anti-union campaigns.

However, the NLRA fails to enforce workers' rights with meaningful remedies.

The National Labor Relations Act protects, by law the right of workers to form unions in order to rectify the inequality of bargaining power between employees and employers.

Republicans have relentlessly tried to undermine the pillars of Americans' retirement security. The Trump budget alone calls for $500 billion in cuts to Medicare, almost $1.5 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, and $72 billion in cuts to Social…

If NEPA had existed in the 1950s, do you think that the U.S. Government would have conducted the atomic and hydrogen bombs on Bikini Atoll and Micronesia?

NEPA empowers ordinary Americans like my constituents.

Maintaining these important gains is paramount in the response to this crisis.

We know that those with substance use disorders come from all walks of life.