John Mica

Outrageous spending to look at the outrageous spending.

All this money, instead of it being paid vacations for VA employees, as others have said, could have been spent in many, many better ways.

The job that is being done at the VA should be reflective of the dignity and the sacrifice and the noble intent of those who have served.

There is a problem here. I am not trying to sugarcoat this at all, there is a problem here.

At this time I will yield back my time with the intent of relinquishing the balance of the time to one of the leaders from Florida and also a member of the Appropriations Committee, Mr. Crenshaw. I yield back the balance of my time.

I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Florida, the Honorable Gus Bilirakis, another Florida colleague, and he also has a district that is adjacent to Mr. Young's. {time} 2000

I am now pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Farr), again, reaching across the aisle with the respect and esteem in which Mr. Young was held.

I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Miami, Mr. Mario Diaz-Balart, another Florida colleague, who is also a gentleman who served with Mr. Young distinguishably on the Appropriations Committee.

I am pleased now to recognize another colleague across the aisle. Again, Bill Young's friendships and his service included everyone in the House of Representatives and in the Congress, so I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentlelady…

Thank you. Now, in continuing hearing from the leadership of our delegation, I am pleased to yield to the chairman of the Florida delegation, the gentleman whose district is adjacent to Mr. Young's, to the south, Mr. Vern Buchanan.

I thank the gentlelady. Mr. Young was respected not only by his Republican peers and colleagues but by peers on both sides of the aisle. So I am pleased now to yield to a senior member of the Florida delegation on the other side of the…

I thank the gentleman. We are also pleased to have with us tonight a distinguished leader of the Florida delegation and now the dean of the Florida delegation--our senior member--to pay tribute to Bill Young. I yield to the gentlelady from…

I am very pleased tonight to lead a Special Order in memory of the life and service of our dear friend, our colleague from Florida, Mr. Bill Young. We will hear from members of the Florida delegation and also from leaders from the…

It is absolutely fitting that we take this step and name our veterans hospital on the west coast of Florida after a great American, a patriot, a hero for our veterans--Bill Young.

It's unanimous in a bipartisan manner--do I have to send you a letter with instructions from 100 Members of Congress?

I think that's wrong. I think you had the discretion not to put those up.

Nothing has appalled the American people more that I've seen in my two decades of service than what you've done.

It just seems that common sense did not prevail.

Our side believes that we're on the verge of a permanent shutdown of our government.

I think it's important that we conduct this oversight hearing in a joint fashion.

You do and you clearly have stated that you have the discretion to take those barriers down.

It looks like some of these contracts--and this is on opensecret.com--which is to political folks.

Can you tell us how many have signed up for Obamacare?

You are prepared to send that out?

Are you ready in 2014? When are you going to announce to folks that in 2014 they have a $95 individual penalty or a $285 family penalty if they haven't complied with signing up?