I am concerned about the unemployment rates of our guardsmen and our reservists, of course, and I have sponsored legislation to provide employers with tax credits of up to $2,000 for their guardsmen or reservist employees called to active…

Mr. Speaker, I am here today to speak about something that is nearly 3 years in the making. Some 1,000 days ago, in April of 2009, the Senate passed a budget, and that's the last time we've seen any attempt from them to set Washington's…

I commend the Honorable Charles Rangel for his valor, for his sacrifice and courage.

I want to thank you, Tom, for your extraordinary service to your constituents.

Instead of asking, where was God? I think that we ought to ask, where were the people?

Madam Speaker, last night I held a telephone town hall meeting, and I spoke with hundreds of my constituents about the pressing issues facing America today. Many people on the call spoke about the need for a balanced budget amendment to…

Please continue to do so. You are making a difference.

I think that you know we have all talked about, when you can get the access to the care, and when you can get there, I know Carl mentioned it, I use the VA as my health care provider and I could not be happier with the care that I get.

But we do these blanket statements, that all spending is bad, we cut it, we do all this, without asking what are your specifics?

And all of us sitting here at this table back in the budget talks in the spring mentioned that we thought that the construction budgets, major and minor construction, were underfunded.

I do think VA needs to have some answers on that.