Sanford Bishop: “veterans, especially those who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, are facing an unemployment rate of over 27 percent…”

So maybe it ought to be a real time opportunity for service members to apply when that happens as opposed to having to wait till the next year? That seems like an easy fix for that issue.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise as the sponsor of H.R. 9600, legislation to designate the United States Postal facility in Plains, Georgia, as the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Post Office. President Jimmy Carter and…

I thank the gentleman from Georgia, my friend and my colleague, for his comments, and I thank him for joining with me in organizing today's bipartisan Special Order hour in honor of First Lady Rosalynn Carter. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the…

Last year, the RAND National Defense Research Institute revealed that 25.8 percent of active-duty members face food insecurity.