Sam Farr

We will need flexibility within our budget to ensure that we have the right resources at the right place, at the right time, to provide veterans the timely care they need.

I really want you to go back and find out what initiated the ruling on this issue.

the most frequently asked question in Congress is 'why don't we run government like a business?'

The Choice Act, as you know, is bifurcated, reflecting the different views of the members of the House and Senate authorizing committees at the time.

I personally think that non-V.A. care is a great and underutilized alternative, particularly in the aftermath of what happened in Phoenix and elsewhere around the country.

It is also critical that we continue to invest in tried and true models like veterans treatment courts.

I can't emphasize strongly enough the importance of achieving interoperability with DOD's electronic health-record system.

I would just hope that you will listen to the needs of the school rather than the green eyeshades that want to cut back to 884. It would be a disaster.

You can't transfer property with unexploded ordinances on it.

It is the military's responsibility to clean up the dirt and anything under the dirt, and of whoever is receiving the land to clean up what is above the dirt.

You are cutting that cleanup fund every year. I recall that you indicated in last year's proposal that you would clean up some more, but then you level funded the account this year.

Thank you for yielding, Madam Ranking Member. Madam Speaker, I rise today to give apologies to all of the employees of the Homeland Security Department. In watching this, I hope that they understand what is really going on. This is not a…

I think it is long overdue.

I hope, Mr. Chairman, if that happens that you will invite the Secretary back so he can talk about what might be the implications of anything we give him less than what he is asking for.

We ought to be asking States, how much money have you got in the game to help solve this problem?

I find in Congress that everybody wants to solve problems, but nobody wants to pay for solving the problem.

This bill is simply outrageous. It was bad enough that the Majority brought to the floor H.R. 36 outside the regular order. But the Majority had to pull that bill when the women in their Conference informed their Leadership just how bad…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Madam Chairwoman, I rise to thank my colleagues on the Appropriations Committee. I am a ranking member also. I know what type of work it takes to put together a $39.7 billion expenditure to protect all…

Thank you very much, my dear colleague from California and our distinguished Member of Congress, Barbara Lee. And I can't think of any other Member who has made more trips and taken more people and influenced this change of policy in the…

I want to thank Mr. Rogers, the chair of the committee, for bringing a bill to the floor. I wish it was the full bill and not most of the bill. But I also want the world to note that, even though there are some poison pills in this issue…

Thank you very much for yielding and being chair of the California Democratic delegation, the largest single delegation in the United States Congress, with its champions of note, George Miller and Henry Waxman. This is a historical room…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. This is always a difficult issue. It is a California issue, and I want to point out that the California delegation is not evenly split on this. It is unevenly split. The reason is the gentleman just…

Thank you, Madam Ranking Chair, for yielding. I rise, Madam Speaker, on this bill with great concern. I am bringing a lot of passion to this debate because I lived in the barrios like the ones the children are coming from when I was a…

I stand today in the well to appeal to my Republican colleagues about this debate, which isn't about the underlying bill, it is about the rule. You ought to all be worried. We all ought to be worried. This rule is a sham to the institution…

As co-chair of the Congressional Travel and Tourism Caucus, I am pleased to see the House of Representatives take up the Travel Promotion, Enhancement, and Modernization Act of 2014 today. I want to thank my caucus co-chair, Rep. Gus…