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Mr. Kucinich, I thank you for your courage in bringing this debate to the floor. It's like the 600-pound elephant in the Nation. This war has gone on and on--and we never discuss it. I want to applaud the courage of Mr. Jones from North…
Did you know that the bill cuts millions of jobs from our economy, the cuts to the Clean Water Act, the cuts to the High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail Program, and other infrastructure cuts? In my State of California, we are losing, just…
I'm a little disappointed in the amendment by my friend from Arizona. This is our biggest deficit hawk in the House. He wants to cut $18 million from the Defense budget. Did I get that number right, Mr. Flake, $18 million? I mean, we've…
But I would like to say that this House, of course, honors his extraordinary service to his district, his State, the men and women of our armed services, and most importantly, of course, our Nation for 34 years. It has been a great…
I want to thank Senator Akaka, chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, for introducing this bill, also known as the Post-9/ 11 Veterans Educational Assistance Improvements Act of 2010. And I want to thank my colleague…
I'd like to thank Senator Feinstein, the Senate and House Judiciary Committees, Chairman Conyers, and Chairwoman Lofgren for their leadership in the passage of S. 4010, a bill for the relief of Shigeru Yamada, an extraordinary young man…
I happen to be an historian myself. I have done a lot of work in oral history, and you described it so eloquently. I wish my father, who was in World War II, we could have taped before he died. Just a couple of weeks ago when I was back…
I have had the honor, privilege of chairing the Veterans' Affairs Committee for the last 4 years. The voters of this Nation have changed the party in charge, and so I think this will probably be my last day on the floor as the chairman. I…
Mr. Speaker, this bill before us is an important piece of legislation, establishing a bill of rights on the one hand for women veterans, and on the other hand for injured and amputee veterans. This has been the subject of over a year of…
Mr. Speaker, 2 weeks ago, as we all know, Americans came together to honor Veterans Day and pay tribute to the over 23 million veterans that have served our Nation. We have a proud legacy of appreciation and commitment to the men and women…
It is time, Mr. Speaker, to move into the 21st century on this. The VA has been a male institution. We cannot keep waiting for change. It has to come. Women are performing an incredible, incredible role in the conflicts that we have…
We applaud again your persistence for that. We know the veterans in Las Vegas and surroundings are going to be well served.
Mr. Speaker, as chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, I rise in strong support of what is now entitled the Veterans' Benefits Act of 2010, H.R. 3219, the title being amended in the Senate. This is an omnibus benefits bill…
Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 5993, the Securing America's Veterans Insurance Needs and Goals, or SAVINGS, Act. This bill was sponsored by one of our esteemed colleagues, Representative Debbie Halvorson of Illinois, to…
I want to commend, Mr. Speaker, Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin for introducing H.R. 5360, also known as the HELP Veterans Act of 2010. For the last 4 years, as the chair of the Economic Opportunities Subcommittee, the…
This legislation is about transparency. It's about accountability. It's about disclosure. It's about people understanding the process. This bill doesn't condone anything. It just says that those grief-stricken survivors know what's…
At this time, I guess I thank the gentlelady. Within a day of the publicity that surrounded Prudential apparently not giving sufficient information, you had this bill. You moved very quickly and very decisively, and it is going to help all…
This bill, as I said before, and as Mrs. Halvorson said very distinctly and very eloquently, is about disclosure, accountability, transparency. The survivors need to know what is going on. We will, as the gentleman requested, have and are…
Mr. Speaker, I would like to commend the gentleman from Arkansas, Representative John Boozman, for introducing this bill, which seeks to set minimum educational and training standards for certain employees of the Vocational Rehabilitation…
As the chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, I ask all my colleagues to support H. Con. Res. 226, to honor our great heroes of the Second World War. We all know that this was the war that was carried out by the ``Greatest…
I rise today in support of H.R. 3885, the Veterans Dog Training Therapy Act. We all recognize how damaging the invisible wounds of war can be. The need for effective treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder and for other conditions…
I just want to point out that we are approaching the Memorial Day recess. Probably all of us will be at veterans memorials and parades, saluting them on Memorial Day, and we will all say, of course, that we support our veterans. What we…
I do urge my colleagues to support H.R. 5145, as amended. Like the gentleman from Indiana, I understand the outrage and anger of the gentleman from Louisiana as we are facing probably the biggest environmental disaster of this century. And…
I rise today in support of H.R. 5145, the Assuring Quality Care for Veterans Act. Many key health care professionals require continuing professional education in order to maintain their licensure. Such education can be costly, and the VA…
Mr. Speaker, when I became chairman of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs 3 years ago, the VA was strained to the breaking point by years of chronic underfunding. We were a country at war; yet, the Department of Veterans Affairs remained…
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