Mike Bost

Thank you. And I will go with the first five minutes of questioning.

Thank you, Mr. Hearn. And Mr. Gallucci, you are recognized for five minutes.

We would like to add that number to the record, then.

All right. The other concern that I have right quick...

Yes, that would be the concern.

I am not only a Marine, I am a Marine and a father of a Marine.

I am a father of three and a grandfather of 11, and before coming to Congress I worked in a small business, in a trucking business, and my wife and I own a beauty salon.

I want to thank him for being here.

I want to explain that although I look forward to working with Ms. Elizabeth Esty from Connecticut as our new Ranking Member, under Committee rules Ms. Julia Brownley is still the Subcommittee's acting Ranking Member.

It is my privilege to have been asked to be Chairman of the Subcommittee and I am grateful to Chairman Roe for the opportunity.

The process and the length of time that it takes is so devastating to our veterans.

It is very hard to explain to the general public why it is that we cannot take our records from DoD and go right into being a retired veteran.

We need to be able to process them as quickly as possible.

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According to Inter-American Law Review, the Castro regime's confiscation of U.S. assets was the largest uncompensated taking of American property by a foreign government in history.

Cuba ranks amongst the world's worst credit risk and debtor nations. Thus, I am confident we all agree that American taxpayers must not be exposed to any direct bailout of the Castro regime.

Let me be absolutely clear. Those of us who support sanctions and oppose financing transactions with the Castro regime do not do with the intent of harming American farmers.

When I have to go back to my constituents and try to answer for the VA, when either you have got too big in so many areas, and you are just out of control.

Well, it is as bad as everybody says if you are the person--it is your records that this occurs with.

Okay. Because you are saying that you look at it one way, and that is the way you come up with your numbers and the VA looks at it another way.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ms. McCoy, I am--I don't even know--you said a while ago when speaking to the Chairman and answering his question, that training will now occur.

Okay. The concern I have is is in our documents and what we have got, that prior--that the assistant director assumed the previous RMO has provided SDA staff with training, but no one assured--there was no assurance that it had occurred…

The communities feel that way. And as their Representative, that is very difficult to try to explain.