Mark Takano

Based on your organization's mission, can you speak to the importance of having stable leadership in key positions and what impact these vacancies may have on the VA's success.

I think Mr. Beyer submitted for the record Supreme Court decisions which reaffirmed that.

The current law permits mainly health concerns and science to drive ozone standards, is that correct? It's not economic impact, is that correct?

As Members of this Committee, we can't find solutions to problems until we understand the full scope of the problems that we are facing.

I don't believe--I don't think the Commission on Care, the bipartisan co-chairs believe that accountability will be achieved without a robust HR Department.

I ask that my colleagues join me in passing H.R. 4635, as amended, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California will be postponed. Amendment No. 17 Offered by Mr. Cohen The Acting CHAIR. It is…

I want to thank the majority for including the report. I just want to remind the majority also that the OTA was never eliminated; it just was defunded. I believe it is time to fund it again. I refer back to the Facebook hearings in the…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of division B (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. ___. There is appropriated…

Do we know for a fact that the data that I am talking about, the geographic data of where that servicemember's unit was involved, is that integrated into the health record at the DoD?

The Trump Administration has proposed a 37 percent cut in fiscal year 2019 for the Office of Electricity

Do we know if that is part of a future plan?

With the development of a system where VA and DoD may share electronic health records, it will directly increase the quality of and access to health care for veterans.

Do we need to kind of have a different kind of dog tag to know where these servicemembers actually have been?

So who would be responsible? Whose responsibility would that be to try and track--to try to correlate a servicemember's service record and any kind of diseases, ailments, or symptoms that there may be a pattern--recognized in that pattern?

Well, my interest is, of course, that we have a more proactive approach to anticipating these sorts of symptoms.

I look forward to our expert panel's assessment of the program's strengths, weaknesses, and challenges, and recommendations for improvements.

I think the public needs to understand the risks and where the liabilities are in a community, how are we going to address the low-income folks who are living in the riskiest areas that constitute our important workforce.

I look forward to hearing from the panel today about what Congress can do to accelerate, and eventually expand, deployment of this lifesaving technology.

It would be government data that would also inform other kinds of market incentives to be able to drive this in the right direction.

We are talking about examining building codes going forward -- so that all future construction conforms to adequate building codes.

How is it that we can make sure that this reauthorization works in tandem and helps leverage what California is doing, and how can the Federal Government be of the best assistance to the State of California?

I want to understand, is this research, the conclusions you have drawn about what people would do if they couldn't shelter in place, is that part of the social science that needs to be done?

I just want to make sure that the live stream is functioning.

This bill would create veterans Economic Opportunity and Transition administration at VA, headed by a new Under Secretary for Economic Opportunity and Transition.