"Could you please elaborate on what specifically VHA/VA is doing to ensure a positive handoff of these service members from DOD to VA, recognizing their increased risk for suicidal ideations?"
"I am deeply concerned that now, in 2019, under your leadership, the Department appears to be rubber stamping States' applications for these waivers, and failing to be transparent."
"This transparency is critical, that is why the information is required."
"Will you commit to making these waiver applications public, the actual application?"
"This topic is critically important to us in the Illinois 14th District. My community in northern Illinois is facing increasing threats dues to flooding along the Fox River in McHenry County."
"I know that our committee is committed to making sure that they are no longer an afterthought moving forward."
"FEMA did include climate change in its strategic plan over a number of years as a considerable threat to our country."
"Like many of us, people in my community in Illinois have experienced surprise billing and I frequently hear from constituents about their struggles to afford health care even health care more broadly ..."
"Thank you for holding this really important hearing today and I would like to thank our panelists for being here and for your really comprehensive written testimony."
"From a medical perspective, if you wanted to purposely design a policy to be cruel to hurt children, you would design it to look a lot like this administration's family separation policy."
"Tearing kids and their parents apart like this immoral--ma'am, it is un-American and it is just plain wrong."
"Securing our chemical facilities is vital to our National security and to ensure that our communities remain safe."