Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the airmen of Tyndall Air Force Base on a special date. Today marks exactly 2 months since Tyndall took a direct hit from Hurricane Michael, a devastating category 4.9 storm that damaged more than 90…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I am grateful to be here today for the opportunity to speak on this bipartisan, commonsense bill to provide much-needed modernization and updates of the Coastal Barrier Resources…

It's going to be an amount of damage we have not seen in living memory in this part of the country.

A nice little town like ours and the sheriff was -- he was irate and imposed a curfew on the city starting at 6:00 and it will be dusk to dawn for the next couple of days or so until we get everything under control.

Not one [transformer] was operational in Bay County.

Thank you very much, Mr. Shuman.

Representative Esty's bill, H.R. 6418, the VA Website Accessibility Act of 2018, would require VA to examine all Web sites, apps, attachments, and electronic forms to determine which are inaccessible to veterans with disabilities and…

Representative Mast's bill, H.R. 5413, the Improving Veterans Access to Congressional Services Act of 2018, would make it easier for veterans to interact with their Representatives by requiring VA to prescribe regulations allowing Members…

I am grateful to Representative Brian Mast and Representative Elizabeth Esty for working to ensure the Department of Veterans Affairs is best able to provide the high-quality care and services that our Nation's veterans have earned and…

It is an important thing for us to consider since we are talking about $100 billion a year, right.

Let me associate myself with those remarks because it doesn't make sense. And it really was--it appeared to be a very heavy-handed unilateral rules-making exercise that took no input from the VSS and no input from Congress.