Mike Bost

Believe me, in the letter, we were not asking for names. We are asking for numbers.

We routinely observe personnel committed to providing the highest quality care, benefits, and services to veterans and their families, despite obstacles.

I encourage my colleagues to support this bill, as everyone has spoken about how this needs to be, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I look forward to working with the chairman as we move forward to try to cure that problem that we were just talking about. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Higgins), a great Member, who has worked hard…

I encourage all of my colleagues to support this bill and honor the lance corporal by naming this facility after him. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

In closing, I encourage all my colleagues to support the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I encourage all my colleagues to support this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I encourage all of my colleagues to support the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

In closing, I encourage all of my colleagues to support this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I urge all of my colleagues to support the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I appreciate the chairman's willingness to work on doing that as well, but this amendment itself being included in the NDAA will not take care of those others. I would like to work with him to make sure that everybody that needs to be…

However, FRA has not acted with the same urgency to help railroads address these workforce challenges.

Will you make a commitment today to using the most up-to-date data when making decisions about the use of new technology, and will you commit to sharing with this committee the data to make those decisions once the FRA has decided it?

Administrator Bose, you have emphasized the importance of the role that innovation would play in reaching FRA's safety goals.

The national shortage of parking is a safety crisis.

As we have noticed today, this bill and other bills deal specifically with the promise we have made, I have made, and I know that Chairman Takano as well has made, to try to make things better for our women veterans. We also had the bills…

I encourage my colleagues to support this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time. {time} 1545

Will the STB commit to working with all stakeholders to address service issues and work to ensure that both rail carriers and shippers have a balance in that decision?

Last month, the Board held a 2-day hearing to discuss issues in rail service.

Over the last 6 months, the Board has held 2-day hearings on reciprocal switching, a 2-day hearing on rail service, and multiday hearings on restoring Amtrak service along the gulf coast.

I hereby remove my name as cosponsor of H.R. 3807. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Torres of New York). The gentleman's request is accepted. ____________________

By moving in the way that we have, we have some committees that do this and some committees that do that.

I think physical presence matters, not just because I see it through a constitutional lens, but because human interaction matters.

If you believe it is unconstitutional, again, it is mind-boggling to me that you would utilize it.

I have never voted by proxy either. I wrote the rule--but I have been lucky, right? I didn't get COVID.