Mark Takano

A thousand bucks. So a thousand bucks per household would be effective prevention.

I have always thought from day one there should be educational or training goals established and their commanding officers should also be a part of the process of holding those soldiers accountable every year.

One of the complaints I often get when I am out in the community is veterans that either don't know about the VA or weren't--feel like they weren't told about the VA at the time of their separation from Active duty.

I know that Camp Pendleton has the Skills Bridge program that I have been hearing the VA ramp up across the country.

I think it is really important to emphasize that for our chronic homeless population, as the supervisor said, it is a lot of work and a lot of resources to support people in getting their lives in order.

I want to switch gears a little bit from the importance of wraparound services for chronically--for chronic homelessness.

While the VA's budget is at record levels we are still seeing needs across the agency for all services.

This field hearing is a testament to both the majority and majority's desire to come together and examine the negative trends affecting veterans.

I particularly congratulate you on the recent success on your adaptive housing bill. That was a victory not just for you but for all of us.

Online shoppers are required to receive periodic notification of any and all obligations or changes to their contracts.

It is common sense. If you sign up online you should be able to cancel online, not have to go and wait on a telephone line for 20 minutes before you talk to somebody who can say, OK, and explain to them.

Congress must step up to ensure no consumer is left unfairly vulnerable to misleading and abusive online deals.

We will require sellers to obtain additional affirmative consent to bind consumers at the end of free-trial periods.

If you sign up online you should be able to cancel online, not have to go and wait on a telephone line for 20 minutes.

My bill, which is titled the Unsubscribe Act, will give shoppers the protections needed in today's online marketplace and ensure negative option deals cannot be used unfairly to deceive consumers.

When you place an order, you are automatically enrolled in a monthly membership which incurs an automatic charge each month to your account and credit card of $40 without permission.

Consumers getting ripped off.

I hope we might as the questions go on, that the Members might ask more questions about this residency model, how it differs that we can't have alternative methods of certification, meaning skimpier, less effective training.

I like this term residency, because it kind of echoes what doctors go through.

I realize, I am struck by the lack of partisanship on this panel, I am pleased to see that.

I think I made a mistake in my early years of teaching. I thought just having a degree from an Ivy League school was enough to let me go and teach.

I want to urge my colleagues to support H.R. 2196, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Malinowski). The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Takano) that the House…

Even though federal employees are legally protected for exposing wrongdoing, they're likely to face retaliation for doing so.

Let me be clear. As this Subcommittee's Chairman, I will fight for the rights of whistleblowers.

Should they be able to discriminate against any number of categories of people?