Mark Takano

Now through Covered California, she and her sons are able to get robust coverage, and they are saving more than $600 a year.

I thank the gentleman from Colorado for yielding time. The issue of immigration reform is a top priority for our Nation and rightly so. It will not only help our economy grow, but it will also help families stay together. I was taken aback…

I just wanted to clarify something.

I appreciate your asking the question because EPA is about public health.

The Clean Air Act has helped improve public health by cutting down cases of asthma, heart disease and infant mortality.

I believe the EPA is a driver of innovation, pushing the industry to adopt new standards that protect the environment, improve public health and create jobs in emerging fields.

A study by the EPA shows that by 2020 the benefits of the Clean Air Act will outweigh the costs by more than 30 to 1.

I have to tell you, it is frustrating to me to sit here and listen to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle beating up on the EPA.

I hope we can work together to improve entrepreneurship for our veterans.

If you would elaborate more on these simple Federal fixes?

In California, I do have a background in community colleges, and particularly at the hearings yesterday, priority registration was one of the things we highlighted.

I can imagine something similar if we encouraged a community college or some institution to supply that one-stop shop or that transition for the veteran.

Well, you know, it seems to me that there is a way to synthesize some of the ideas here.

I want to thank Subcommittee Chairman Bill Flores and Ranking Member Mark Takano for holding this field hearing on Veterans Hiring.

Employment continues to be a challenge for veterans across the country, and looking at different models for assisting veterans in finding jobs is very helpful, especially as we review national policy.

I am very happy to be in Waco this morning, meeting so many of your constituents involved in finding good-paying, long-term jobs for America's veterans.

I hope it will soon spread to other States.

So it is just that you had tried to go to community college before you went into the service?

Examining Higher Education Institutions' Services To Veterans.

Returning veterans tell me all of the time that finding a job is both the most important and the most difficult thing they faced.

I know that you are truly committed to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity and its responsibility to protect our veterans.

Riverside County has the eighth largest veteran population of any county in the Nation.

I want to welcome you and everyone from Washington, D.C. to Riverside, California.

And you knew that you would get the benefits to be able to apply yourself more full-time at college after leaving the service?

I would like to enter into the record letters that the Chairman received on October 30.