Mike Bost

The answer is let's use hearing aid specialists. They are qualified.

I don't know how someone could go six days let alone six months when you can't hear.

I introduced this bill along with Representative Walz from Minnesota and Ruiz from California to address the long wait times and lack of access to care for our veterans for audiology services.

However, this is not the system we have as a Nation today. It will take the cooperation of many individuals and political courage.

Promoting work is the real key to helping people avoid poverty.

Individually the intentions have been good over time to create a good safety net, but the problem is, the way these programs have interacted, I think they are not fair to individuals like yourself.

In my opinion, we will not be successful by giving more control to the Federal Government.

As a Marine veteran, I had always thought that if they served so many months in an active status they do get the veteran?

I don't know how anyone in a capacity of 120 days can be an overseer to a level that they can manage to, one, even if they want to, and I don't want to say some of them don't want to.

Does the lack of permanent directors at some and many of our facilities create an opportunity for those below them to falsify the number of contracts awarded to small business?

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I rise today in support of H.R. 2393, the Country of Origin Labeling Amendments Act. In my home State of Illinois, we are a rich agricultural State, and we have a rich agricultural heritage. Illinois…

I have in my district right now a situation with a boot manufacturer that has been a small business and always been rated as small business.

Would you say that having the opportunity to compete on that level instead of everybody trying to go against the big dogs without any opportunity like this, beneficial for the taxpayer?

Thank you, Chairman and Ranking Member, thank you both for being involved with this hearing today and allowing me to introduce the next participant.

I want to protect the employee. I understand that. But do you have an answer on how the language can be put together, other than saying, 'Okay, we think this goes too far'? Because my final job, I feel like, is to protect our veterans.

We end up putting undue strain or a heavy collar and a heavy burden on our producers when we are trying to compete in a worldwide market.

I don't like big government a lot. I really don't. I think we kind of overstep many things.

The lifeblood, economically, of our communities where we have National Forests is in good timber harvesting.

I was around when the lake was-- I was around driving with my grandfather in a truck when the dam was built for that.

Why is VA qualified to build a lemonade stand, let alone a multi-million dollar facility?

The Corps has successfully built a $648 million hospital at Fort Bliss.

The VA proudly announces some reform or initiative that will allegedly fix the problems.

I strongly urge the committee to authorize the Navy's request for an additional 12 F/A-18 aircraft for the coming fiscal year.

Our Nation's heroes are being sold the idea that all they need to do is get a degree from anywhere and jobs will be presented to them on a silver platter.

I want to take a moment to commend my colleagues who introduced and supported the Transparency Act.