Doug Lamborn

I'd like to thank our witnesses for being with us today.

Reclaiming my time, I appreciate the chairman's hard work and for his support of this amendment. With that, I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Colorado (Mr…

I am offering the second Lamborn amendment, 052. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 9, line 6, after the dollar amount insert the following: ``(reduced by $5,000,000)''. Page 12, line 17…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 9, line 6, after the dollar amount insert the following: ``(reduced by $5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000)''. The…

I want to thank the gentleman from Arizona for this excellent piece of legislation and his work on behalf of veterans in his district. I reserve the balance of my time.

I thank my colleague from Massachusetts for his gracious words. I would now yield as much time as he may consume to the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Gosar), the sponsor of the legislation.

I want to thank my colleague, the gentleman from South Carolina, for his words and his support on this bill. This has special meaning to me because my father fought, also, in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy, and he recently passed away as…

I am just trying to understand how this is not a deal with terrorists holding a hostage.

You are saying this was not a deal with terrorists, is that correct?

This is unprecedented to have a release like this before there is even a peace agreement.

Let's consider this a disaster relief for veterans.

I am really glad to hear that because I have almost 100,000 veterans in my district, in California Springs, and we are getting a lot of concerned phone calls, as you can imagine.

We recommend the VA Secretary initiate a nationwide review of veterans on wait lists to ensure that veterans are seen in an appropriate time, given their clinical condition.

The money has been given to you. The money is there.

These 1,700 veterans should not be triaged; they should be seen immediately.

I first must call for the resignation of Secretary Shinseki.

I can't see how it would be in our interest to keep complying with a treaty when the other party to that treaty is not in compliance with so many other things it is supposed to be doing. This amendment merely calls for a halt in the…

At this point I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Bishop), my colleague.

I just don't want it to happen again that the Forest Service or any other bureaucracy can tell the men and women who are training to protect our country that they can't train and that Congress has never even addressed this situation. I at…

I thank the chairman for his words of agreement. Given the advanced stage of the project and the amount of work that has already taken place on the Southern Colorado National VA Cemetery, including land being purchased in southeast…

I rise for the purpose of engaging in a colloquy with the gentleman from Texas. Mr. Chairman, I believe we can all agree that honoring our Nation's veterans is of vital importance. They sacrifice so much for us and ask for so little in…

My concern, as I stated earlier, is that schedule delays might result in a veteran... being denied access to the high level of care.

Thank you for your work on that.

Over the last years, you have been really following this closely, and I compliment you for your dedication on making sure the right thing is done for our veterans.

I hope that what you did wrong wasn't to think that authoritarian regimes respond to reason rather than to strength.