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May 20, 2010
Well, I personally feel I should have probably abstained from the hearing.
— Mark Souder
Veterans get ping-ponged back and forth. Right now in Indiana, we're online in this budget to get a new hospital in Fort Wayne. We haven't had investment since before World War II. But they get ping-ponged down to Indianapolis because of…
Apparently, our ground rules here are: We praise the vets on Saturday and punish them on Sunday. To my friend from New Jersey, this afternoon we did a supposed fix for TRICARE, because the Senate bill, basically, unless you're 65 and over…
It's based off the capital gains. Right now--I had one person with a $40,000 house, and the capital gains on that made the difference of his retirement on an annual basis. The question is they have planned nothing----
The question is: Are our veterans covered in the Senate bill, and is TRICARE going to be gutted in the Senate bill? And the veterans who took this risk during the Cold War would rather--as much as they appreciate a flag being raised…
In an earlier bill where I was talking about the veterans health care parts of this bill as we paid tribute to Cold War veterans, Chairman Andrews and I had a follow-up discussion about two of the details which shows the difficulty of this…
I want to talk for a few minutes again on the health care bill that's pending that has millions of Americans upset, near panicked. Obviously, we have health care problems in America. I don't know how to answer some of the people who have…
I rise in support of Women's History Month. And I am proud to call Congresswoman Woolsey my friend. We don't agree on many issues, but we agree on many history issues. We worked together on Angel Island. I appreciate her leadership here…
Back when Thomas Jefferson did the first Louisiana Purchase, he got all parts of 13 States for, what's in inflation-adjusted dollars, $150 million today. When the Senate health care bill passed, it cost $300 million to just get and buy one…
Actually my main subject I want to cover tonight is Israel, but I didn't want today to pass again without making comments about the health care bill, because clearly that is the number one subject on the minds of the people in Indiana as…
SPC Nicholas Scott Hartge served in Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry, Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division in Schweinfurt, Germany. Nicholas grew up in the small town of Rome City, Indiana were he was deeply involved…
I am going to make four basic points, which I know we have been making all afternoon, but there is no harm with repetition because they are important. One, there is no reliable data on how much use there is of these techniques. We've heard…
the proposal to end the FFEL program and replace it with direct federal student lending will have negative consequences on students, it is fiscal madness and the alleged financial benefits to the federal government are likely illusionary.
the notion that federal financial aid has promoted college access to the United States is a myth not a reality.
This is a pretty amazing hearing, the party of Andrew Jackson who opposed the national banks not only proposing another national bank.
the proposal to sharply expand the Pell Grant Program and make it an entitlement is likewise fiscally irresponsible and potentially might add to already inflated college costs.
At a time when California is begging on their knees, we are being held up as California a model of how they did low income and affordability in college.
the law of unintended consequences has led to outcomes far different than intended as Federal Student Assistance has expanded over time.
If there is a single republican who will take the word of the other party that says when there is a public and private offered that the intent isn't to drive out the private, look at this example, 74 percent of colleges chose the private.
How does the Administration plan to stem the need for drug treatment in the future by eliminating prevention efforts such as the State Grants portion of the Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities (SDFSC) program?
In my district, we're getting hammered by unemployment. They're looking at the bonuses, and they're saying 'We don't get bonuses when our company goes down. We get laid off.'
Thank you. I'm going to yield to the ranking member in a minute. I didn't want to repeat questions when I was over at Homeland Security earlier.
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