Mike Thompson

I think most of us in previous hearings have expressed that.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 2, line 14, after the first dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $1,000,000)''. Page 2, line 21, after the dollar…

I thank the chairman and ranking member for cooperating with us and working with us on this very important matter, and I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from…

I want to thank my friend, Mr. Wolf, for all of your years of outstanding service to this fine institution. I rise in support of the bipartisan Thompson-King-Esty-Heck- Fitzpatrick amendment to strengthen the National Instant Criminal…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 17, line 24, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $1,000,000)''. Page 22, line 13, after the dollar amount…

I want to commend you for being thoughtful about this, and recognizing, I trust, that the protections and the biological opinions for salmon and smelt also protect downstream people, farmers, who need good water quality, communities that…

I appreciate what you are doing, pushing out to architects and engineers to educate them on the opportunities.

I just wanted to let you know that our patience does have limits, and I would like you to tell us where we stand on that, please.

Comprehensive and stable health insurance coverage is the key to cost-effective, efficient, timely mental health services in the United States.

I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kelly) for his help and persistence on this. As we have already discussed, Typhoon Haiyan has been absolutely devastating. It hurt a tremendous number of people and has hurt communities. We…

I am proud to be a co-author of Mr. Becerra's bill.

I think it is extremely important.

there was just no interest in that agency working with Congress.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of this amendment. California is facing a severe statewide drought. It is having devastating impacts on families all across our State. This bill will only make things…

Thank you, Madam Chair. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong opposition to this bill, a bill that would destroy jobs, does nothing to address the real problem, the drought, and ignores more than 20 years of established science. What does the…

So you weren't talking about what is covered; you weren't talking about preventive care, mental health, drug and alcohol addiction, all of the--all of the--the fact that they can't drop you for a preexisting condition.

This tax credit will give the veteran more money for getting them into business faster.

I would like to ask everyone here in this subcommittee to consider bringing to the 113th Congress the Help Veterans Own Franchises Act.

Let us not just give them an ovation. Let us give them a vocation.

Veterans hire more veterans. You know, when you ask about what do veterans do? Veterans understand commitment.

And could you use part of your GI bill? Not all military veterans who come out go right into college, but if they could use that for franchise education to get them into business quicker?

And what we--what we want to do, all it does is it offers a tax credit to the veteran for up to 50 percent of their franchise fee.

The beauty of franchising is that it is systems based.

We should be working together to make sure people have access to quality affordable health care rather than trying to find fault and blame.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise in strong support of our bipartisan amendment to require GAO to study the impacts of aquatic invasive species, and I thank the committee leadership for including it in the en bloc agreement…