Mark Takano

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

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.

If you would elaborate more on these simple Federal fixes?

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.

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

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

I hope it will soon spread to other States.

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.

Examining Higher Education Institutions' Services To Veterans.

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

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

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

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

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 thank the gentleman for yielding. I stand today with my colleagues in recognizing Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The unfortunate reality is that domestic violence is something that affects every community in America, as it touches…

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

I thank the gentleman from Colorado for yielding the time. Reforming our immigration system is one of the top issues in our Nation. I was happy to see the Senate act this past June when it passed a comprehensive immigration bill with an…

I thank the gentleman from Arizona for yielding time. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to support the Distinguished Flying Cross National Memorial Act, which would designate the Distinguished Flying Cross Memorial currently under construction at…

Improving air quality and reducing greenhouse emissions is a matter that is vitally important to my constituents in Riverside County.

I thank the gentleman from Maine, the ranking member of our committee, for yielding time, and I thank Chairman Flores of the subcommittee for his hard work. I am pleased to see that the Veterans Economic Opportunity Act of 2013 is…

I thank my friend and colleague, the gentlelady from California's 35th Congressional District, Gloria Negrete McLeod. Now I yield to a true champion of small business. She sits on the Small Business Committee, as well as the Judiciary…

I thank the gentleman. Let me just go into my final remarks for this Special Order hour. And I want to remind the American people that the Democrats did offer a point of compromise when we accepted funding for the continuing resolution…

Well, I don't think we want to normalize or make routine a mode of governing where either party threatens to shut down the government because of a political end they want to achieve or either party decides that they want to threaten the…