Bob Filner

We fully support section 204. These amendments would help both Committees to better identify and address the needs of their respective veteran-populations.

Such leadership will be needed at every level of the VA, and I have faith that it will start with you.

We have a great job to do, an important job, not only with our young men and women coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan.

To the now Congressman Bilirakis, you honor your father with your work on the committee and your advocacy, and we look forward to many years of that. And, of course, Mr. Speaker, this is not an obituary. Mike Bilirakis is very much alive…

This resolution, 1231, supports the goals and ideals of Vietnam Veterans Day. I don't think we have to remind this body that the Vietnam war was a very divisive time in this country. One of the lessons that we should draw from Vietnam is…

in closing, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., used to say we have come a long way with regard to civil rights, but we have a long way to go. I would just ask my ranking member from Indiana not to think that any institution in this country, even…

the very definition of institutional racism is the fact that people in the institution don't even recognize its being practiced. Mr. Rodriguez, you have served us for 10 years. You have been a leader in getting this Congress and this…

Mr. Speaker, with all the huffing and puffing, I am glad the minority ranking member supports the bill. Let me remind people what this bill is all about. It is about our veterans. It is about our veterans. A DOD study after Vietnam found…

We are on House Resolution 1098 to honor the Year of the American Veteran. I will tell the Speaker that in the last year and a half of a Democratically led Congress, about $17 billion of new money came into the VA system to help the health…

yesterday the GAO sustained a protest filed by Boeing Company over the Air Force's decision to award a lucrative contract for aerial refueling tankers to a team led by Northrop Grumman and the European firm behind Airbus. GAO's decision…

Thank you, Mr. Buyer. Madam Speaker, as I said, as we prepare for Memorial Day, I think all of us in this Congress want to assure the servicemembers who have served this Nation in the past and those who are deployed today. We are fighting…

I am pleased, as a cosponsor of H. Res. 1054, to recognize the service and achievements of the women in the Armed Forces and the nation's women veterans. I thank my San Diego colleague, Congresswoman Susan Davis, for introducing this…

Mr. Speaker, we are in the midst of a package of 10 separate pieces of legislation that honors our Nation's veterans, our Nation's most deserving citizens, appropriately enough, as we prepare to honor them on Memorial Day. As we honor our…

What H.R. 3889 does is require the VA to conduct what is called a longitudinal study for at least 20 years of the veterans who began participating in the VA's Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Program. The bill requires annual…

this bill is named after Justin Bailey, who was a veteran of the Iraq War who died in a domiciliary facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs while receiving care for PTSD and a substance use disorder, a very tragic story but one that…

as I said before, we have some very active new members in our caucus, and Mr. Kagen from Green Bay, Wisconsin, brought to us some needs he would like to speak on, and I am glad we know there are other needs in Green Bay besides a new…

Let me focus, if I may, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, on the children. And children have to deal again with dad or mom away for extended periods. You mentioned the Lopez family. Or the problems may really begin when dad or mom come comes back…

The poor state of a lot of the infrastructure of the Veterans Affairs is well-known. Through what we call the CARES process, the Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services, the department found that the existing inpatient wards at the…

again, I thank Mr. Buyer for his comments. Putting this bill on the floor as quickly as we did shows what can happen when we work together. I'm looking forward to that mutual discussion of priorities. We are pledged to deal with this aging…

I rise in support of the Dr. James Allen Veteran Vision Equity Act of 2007. I was glad to be able to work with my colleagues on the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, on both sides of the aisle and in both Houses, to get here. I want to thank…

As a representative of San Diego, there are a lot of things we don't want to imitate about Los Angeles, but we look with envy at the economic engine that the Port of Los Angeles represents. It is truly, and I say this with some envy…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the author of this legislation, the gentleman from Nevada (Mr. Porter), who will speak on his resolution in a few minutes. I want to point out that Abraham Lincoln, during his address at Gettysburg, said that ``the…

again I want to thank Mr. Pallone for authoring this resolution. I know many of us who give speeches on Memorial Day and on Veterans Day note always that there are not many youth in the audience. And to bring these stories to our students…

Mr. Speaker, this war in Iraq has involved our National Guard and Reserve units to an extent that has never before been the case. And many of our laws simply do not reflect the new force structure that you see in Iraq. And that is what we…

As we approach Veterans Day in another week, it is important that we, as Members of the House, not just give our speeches and ride in the parades on Veterans Day but we actually do things that will help our veterans, say thank you for…