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I would also like to urge the committee to continue to prioritize important agricultural research programs like the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative.

While I remain hopeful that Congress will pass a supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2019 as soon as possible, these disasters illustrate the critical importance of the farm safety net.

I appreciate the opportunity to testify before you today. I am here to advocate on behalf of our Nation's farmers, ranchers, and foresters, and the programs that ensure the continued prosperity of rural America.

I thank Chairwoman Wasserman Schultz for agreeing to work with me going forward to address appropriate funding levels and types of facilities that will be necessary to bring Tyndall back to life.

Not one [transformer] was operational in Bay County.

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.

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…

Thank you to the Ranking Member, Representative Julia Brownley. Thank you for requesting this hearing in the first place.

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.

I get that. But you are doing clinical trials down there in L.A. What is the availability up here in Ventura to participate in those clinical trials for these Veterans up here?

I think we ought to be able to lean into this as soon as we get the signature on the final document.

So the VA funding is, of course, of immediate interest to us but also the NIH funding.

Please include Representative Brownley and our Committee in that report, if you would, please.

I would like to begin by thanking Subcommittee Ranking Member Congresswoman Julia Brownley for her hard work.

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

I think we have already overcome having to have somebody go to their homes and removing the technological challenge.

I thank you for giving me the opportunity to visit this beautiful part of the country.

I am honored to serve as the Chairman of the Committee on Veterans Affairs' Subcommittee on Health.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 93, strike lines 18 through 22 and insert the following: (2) in subclause (II), by striking ``during…

I wouldn't wait to come back. If you would share that report when you get it, I know we would all be interested in it.

The subject of today's meeting is an assessment of the potential health effects of burn pit exposure among veterans.