Mark Takano

I support this bill and I am interested in making the optional tracks in the Transition Assistance Program mandatory.

My legislation will give these veterans 5 additional years to receive this training.

Thank you, Mr. Van Hollen. I rise to address the so-called Path to Prosperity that this body is now debating. I'm struck by the beltway media bubble that calls this plan bold and its creator, Mr. Ryan, a serious policymaker who isn't…

I pay tribute today to Dr. Dina Stallings, a professor of forensics at Riverside Community College, beloved by her students and whose passing my community mourns deeply. This Sunday, my community will join together to celebrate her life…

I'd like to thank my friend, the gentleman from Wisconsin, for yielding the time this evening. Earlier today, I was joined by 22 of my fellow freshman Democrats in sending a letter to the distinguished gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Ryan)…

I hope this hearing will help us understand how these servicemembers are performing in the job market.

If you keep treating the NG&R like this, you are going to make them a subclass, I call it a third-class citizen.

Republicans say the darnedest things. I'd like to read a statement from a 2005 letter from the Republican Governors Association outlining its priorities for TANF reauthorization: As Governors, we believe the following provisions . . . are…

You know, when I was a little boy, I remember the National Guard being the place where people went to avoid situations where they would actually be called up...

So roughly 20 percent unemployment?

The unemployment rate is higher for Guard and Reserve veterans than for active duty veterans.

Six hundred thousand members of the National Guard and Reserve have been mobilized since the attacks on our country on September 11th.

We owe a great deal of gratitude to these veterans, and we should do everything we can to assist them.

These veterans need assistance navigating the education, training, and job opportunities available to them so they can reintegrate better into society.

So instead of their group plan, they would be able to pay the health care for that ex-servicemember, and that is generally a lower premium?

Are you suggesting that somehow we incentivize small businesses by actually covering the cost of that health insurance?

The bill before us is a joke. It is only a few sentences, and all it does is ask the President to include in his budget a simple equation that divides the projected deficit by the number of taxpayers. It doesn't take a bill to do this; it…

I'd like to thank the gentleman from Wisconsin for yielding some time to me this evening. Mr. Speaker, there seems to be a lot of talk from my friends on the other side of the aisle about whose idea the sequester was, instead of actually…

Congratulations on being the new Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity Chairman. I look forward to working with you.

As our country begins to reduce operations in the Middle East and bring more of our troops home, we will need to have the right programs to address their needs.

I am a new Member of Congress. I am having to get my arms around this issue.

I remain very interested to hear from the VA the details of how the provisions that have been implemented are performing.

I do not see the anticipated gains that were visualized when the VA and SPAWAR came here to our Subcommittee and testified before us.

I look forward to what the NAVPA has to say about how we can streamline payments to the colleges.

I am having trouble understanding the discrepancy in what you say is the average turn-around time for processing a claim.