Mark Takano

So, but these policies vary from state to state and I am trying to get a sense...

I would be very much interested in seeing that.

How could the VA makes it provider reviews and professional performance evaluation processes more transparent to veterans...

Most Americans would be outraged to learn that hundreds, if not thousands, of veterans have been deported after serving honorably in the United States military, but this is the shocking truth about our broken immigration system. These…

I believe the military, because we do recruit them on that basis, has some responsibility to making sure that these benefits are not hollow.

I thank the ranking member for yielding and for his continued leadership on behalf of America's workers. Mr. Speaker, more and more employees today are working for a company whose name is not on the front of their office building. Instead…

the low participation rate seems to indicate, to me, missed opportunities to help servicemembers successfully transition.

From 2001 to 2013, Wal-Mart was contracting with three warehouses in my community, and those warehouses contracted out their staffing to a company that was accused of committing egregious wage and hour law violations. Thanks to the FLSA…

I have no further speakers. Again, I strongly support H.R. 3657, as amended, and I urge my colleagues to do the same. I yield back the balance of my time.

I have no further speakers. Again, I strongly support H.R. 3656, as amended, and I urge my colleagues to do the same. I yield back the balance of my time.

I have no further speakers. I urge my colleagues to join me in supporting H.R. 3562, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I have no further speakers, and again, I strongly support H.R. 3122, as amended, and urge my colleagues to do the same. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

I have no further speakers. I urge my colleagues to join me in supporting H.R. 1066, the VA Management Alignment Act of 2017. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

I was disappointed it was added late last week and didn't provide you all with enough time to review the text and prepare testimony.

I traveled with my fellow Committee Members Representatives Correa and Rice, and while there we learned that veterans abroad can't access the Veterans Crisis Line.

I want to associate myself with Ranking Member Walz's comments earlier about the VA's role as a coordinator of care.

I believe it will be an experiment whether they are competitive. I believe these spots will fill.

I was thrilled when the Choice Act included 1500 residency slots to help train and attract doctors to the VA.

We would have to continue to ask the question about the proper balance instead of it being on auto-pilot mandatory spending

I think we need to incentivize our best students to serve at the VA

I have always thought that to be really, really--I don't know, not accurate, but to be true to the G.I. Bill...

What kind of resources or support would the VA need from Congress so that veterans could access the VCL from anywhere in the world?

Delila is a graduate student at the University of California, Riverside, who exemplifies the American spirit. As a young woman, she worked two and three jobs to support her family and help her father, who was their sole provider. Three…

I think World War I had enormous consequences that we are still feeling today, the high percentage of nationalism that we are experiencing around the world was certainly present during World War I.

On Friday, the Secretary of Energy submitted a proposed rule to the Federal Energy Regulation Commission, otherwise known as FERC, with the explicit purpose of adjusting market rules to favor coal and nuclear power plants.