Mark Takano

Make no mistake, Governor Pence is no friend of the Affordable Care Act. But he has done the right thing by moving forward to expand Medicaid through the ACA under the title of HIP 2.0.

This is my family's experience: my son, daughter, and son-in-law are all covered under the Exchange. The cost of all three policies is less than what we paid for my son alone last year.

Mr. Messer, you claim that the Congressional Budget Office predicts that the ACA will 'push as many as 2.3 million people out of the workforce over the next seven years.'

Low-income, working Hoosiers lack access to the kind of quality health insurance that their better-off neighbors enjoy. Many Hoosiers cannot access affordable coverage and live in uncertainty.

I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak out against the legislation being put forward by the House Republicans, which is an insincere attempt to address the humanitarian crisis at our border. This bill…

I thank the gentleman from Wisconsin for yielding. Earlier today, your colleague from Wisconsin (Mr. Ryan) released his long-awaited antipoverty plan. This is a bold step for Mr. Ryan because, if you look at the history of the Republican…

We need more interoperability between the VA and non-VA care to really make outsource with the non-VA providers more feasible.

I think many of us support the idea of non-VA access given our emergency situation.

I think many of us want to support more non-VA care, but we want to maybe set the parameters so it really is possible and really does work.

I have to think that that is contributing to a shortage of doctors generally.

the Wage and Hour Division is the Department of Labor's most important tool to ensure that workers are receiving the pay and protections they are entitled to under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

I think it is common sense that Americans believe in a vigorous enforcement, especially of our low-wage workers.

I wish the conversation probably were around things like raising the minimum wage.

$1 billion in wages for more than 1.2 million workers.

we have passed four appropriations bills in the House with amendments that call for preventing the contracting with businesses that have a history of wage theft.

I am a new member of Congress, but I have been a small business owner for over half my life.

We have got to try to get it right in the VA facilities because of that expectation that the Selkes' son had, you know, that was their comfort zone.

my thing is if, even if we do approve non-VA, make it more easy, easier for Vets to use that areas like mine, they are still going to have trouble finding that care, you know, in the community.

Well, we know that the VA loses health care providers to the DoD. Why hasn't the VA considered increasing the base pay of the VA health care employees so that they receive comparable pay to the DoD?

Has the VA considered offering other incentives such as loan repayments or increased pay for VA providers willing to work in rural and underserved areas?

Ms. Farrisee, can you tell me how many employees under Title 5... received bonuses?

I thank the gentlewoman from Arizona. Mr. Speaker, I, too, want to give praise to the gentleman from Florida, Chairman Miller, for the way in which he has conducted the hearings and conducted the business of the Veterans' Affairs…

I mean, these are reasonable guidelines and standards.

Today I take to the floor to ask Congress to act and pass legislation that will help millions of working families. We need to pass legislation that will raise the minimum wage and reinstates unemployment insurance for the long-term…

I can barely contain the anger I feel about this situation and the millions and millions of dollars that have been spent trying to solve this situation.