Julia Brownley

I am, in its current form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Ms. BROWNLEY of California moves to recommit the bill H.R. 3522 to the Committee on Energy and Commerce with…

This is the final amendment to H.R. 3522, which will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. If adopted, the bill will immediately proceed to final passage as amended. My amendment would ensure that nothing in the underlying act…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule XX, this 15-minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by 5-minute votes on passage of the…

I just wanted to follow up on the no shows.

How was money going to solve those issues?

So it's not an issue, tribal and non-tribal? Together, it's fine.

Thank you for your extraordinary leadership on this committee and the committee as a whole and for continuing to keep the issue of access to quality and timely services provided to our rural veterans and our Native American veterans at the…

So what were the needs here?

we want change and we want the VA to be veteran-centric, service-focused.

there's got to be a major, major sort of cultural shift that has to take place.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Bockelman, I wanted to ask, so how much funding did your VISN receive from the Access to Care Initiative?

Thank you. I wanted to know--you had mentioned in your testimony identifying access gaps, I think is how you termed it. So what are they?

At the end of the day, we want to provide high quality, timely healthcare to our veterans in every single corner of our country.

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So, I wanted to ask a few questions around our service to veterans who are Native Americans.

this bill is a beginning step. But we know the most important work for us to do at this particular point in time now is to make sure that we provide--the committee provides the oversight.

I know I can say with great certainty that our--the VA committee back in Washington had many, many meetings around this crisis.

I think, therapy through telemedicine, talk therapy, one-on-one, group sessions, these are all good.

I honestly am a firm, firm believer that in order for us to really improve the VA and change culture, we really need to be in a mindset of continuous improvement, always--always trying to improve.

In closing, I would like to add that as ranking member of the Health Subcommittee, I led a hearing last July to address VA care and treatment for military sexual trauma survivors. The subcommittee looked at the coordination of care and…

Might I inquire if the gentleman from Colorado will have any additional speakers?

I have a motion at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion. The Clerk read as follows: Ms. Brownley of California moves that the managers on the part of the House at the conference on the disagreeing votes of…

I just want to recognize my colleague, the gentleman from Colorado. He has worked hard on this committee. I want to make clear that what we are talking about today is the bill that passed the Senate 93-3. So we are not talking about an…

this crisis has been specific in terms of wait times, but we know that we have had issues with capacity.

I think the expectation is we would go to conference and resolve the smaller differences and move forward.

this must not--should not be--must be a bipartisan approach to this and we must collectively solve this problem.