Mark Takano

I challenge her to go work on a farm under extreme heat conditions.

I take offense at the Chairman's opening statement with these baseless, and frankly misleading attacks on our Acting Secretary of Labor.

I think history will judge him and the Senators who have held up her nomination very poorly.

How much time is remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from California has 10 minutes remaining.

I remind my esteemed colleague and friend-- and I do believe the gentleman from Illinois is my friend--that we are about to tonight bring up, again, the rule for the Defense appropriations bill. This body failed to even pass a rule and to…

Food insecurity is linked to many poor outcomes for physical and mental health, including increased risk of suicide. Food insecure veterans have a 400 percent higher rate of suicidal ideation. Food insecure veterans with a diagnosed mental…

The plain truth is that military families depend on programs like SNAP and WIC to make ends meet. I have been working with my Democratic colleagues over the last several months on ways to address the barriers faced by veterans to access…

I am pleased that the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Bost), my friend and colleague, would like to feed cabbage to his hogs, but I want to feed America's veterans, America's military families, and America's servicemembers. I ask all of my…

We can do much better.

The goal here is to give veterans every single credit they deserve for their previous work experience in the military.

This hearing comes at a perfect time, as we gear up for the reauthorization of WIOA.

I ask all my colleagues to join me in passing H.R. 3981, as amended, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I ask all of my colleagues to join me in passing H.R. 1530, as amended, the Veterans Benefits Improvement Act, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I ask all my colleagues to join me in passing S. 475, a bill to designate the clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Gallup, New Mexico, as the Hiroshi ``Hershey'' Miyamura VA Clinic. Let me just add that I had three great uncles…

I share Ranking Member Cherfilus-McCormick's belief that VA must focus on developing a baseline EHR that minimizes deviations as the program moves forward.

I am concerned, though, to hear that VA is moving forward with the program at the Lovell Federal Healthcare Center.

I look forward to continuing to work with my House and Senate colleagues to ensure that we get this bill finalized and enacted into law as soon as possible.

Yesterday, we received the quarterly patient safety data that was mandated by Representative Frank Mrvan's EHR Transparency Act in the last Congress.

It cannot be understated how big this problem is, both in terms of cost and scale, but a modern EHR is necessary if we want VA to be able to provide world class healthcare.

I certainly hope we do get this issue fixed.

We cannot allow DoD to pressure VA into going live prematurely just so that DoD can reach its goals.

The VA EHR is a bipartisan mess, and it calls for bipartisan solutions.

VA is required by law to transmit the names of the VA beneficiaries to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, which prevents them from buying a firearm, but let me make one thing abundantly clear. Under no circumstances has…

I mean obviously the California taxpayers support and subsidize this education, but it is possible to I think produce an affordable undergraduate experience.

I want to remind folks that community colleges are not just entities that serve as steppingstones to 4-year institutions.