Veteran-owned companies do two really important things: First, they create jobs and provide positive impact on our economy. And most importantly, veteran-owned small businesses provide a great venue for unemployed veterans to find work…

This is a very ill-conceived amendment, and I must stand in opposition to it. The Davis-Bacon Act requires that workers on federally funded construction projects be paid no less than the wages paid in the community for similar work. It…

I appreciate the gentleman yielding, and I appreciate those comments. I think it is clear that this was an action by the Department, and it was not an action taken by the committee. However, several of us on the committee have grave…

I believe the Federal government can work closely with its local partners to do more to reduce the supply of drugs that enter American jurisdictions in the Caribbean and to reduce the violence that accompanies those drugs.

FRA continues its advocacy for legislation authorizing the immediate payment of concurrent receipt of full military retired pay and veterans' disability compensation for all disabled retirees.

I am honored to join my colleagues in the Georgia delegation in paying tribute to one of our Nation's most tenured and preeminent broadcast television news anchors, Monica Kaufman. For more than 30 years she served as the Channel 2…

You are requesting an additional $165 million for medical care in fiscal year 2013.

There is no budget more deserving of our attention than the VA budget, and we have asked a new generation of heroes to sacrifice on behalf of our country, and we have an obligation to take care of them when they come home.

You are requesting a carryover for $500 million. What is the reason for the carryover, and how is it built into the 2013 budget?

The military and the nonprofit Fisher House Foundation provides some relief for Active Duty and retiree families with a loved one who is seriously ill or critically injured.

These are the issues we have really been wrestling with for about 6 years, and I am just hopeful that we actually will get a handle on it.

All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players. Each has his entrance and his exit. One man in this time may play many parts. So it is with Donald Payne. He was a son, a brother, a husband, a father, a grandfather, a…