Marlin Stutzman

I am extremely concerned about how this market manipulation invariably distorts private investment decisions.

I think one of the big red flags is that the President is suggesting including money for FHA in his budget.

But when you are asking for only 3.5 percent down, people are getting into homes very possibly that they just cannot afford.

It seems that FHA is outside of its original charter, and a lot of that is due to the recession and the housing collapse.

I just find it unacceptable that we close services because we don't have staff in place.

It is hard to pick up a newspaper or access a news Web site that does not have a story about the difficulties facing veterans who are returning to the civilian workforce today.

I hope today's hearing has shed some light on the need to continue our oversight of TAP2. It is just too important.

I would offer that mandatory training must include those alternative paths and that forcing every servicemember to sit through three days of job hunting skills at the expense of training tailored to their post-discharge intentions is a…

The time has come for the CVE to take a hard look in the mirror, dig down to the root of the problem, and fix it.

As a taxpayer, as a business owner, as an American watching this sort of or hearing about this sort of testimony, my confidence is really shaken.

We need another approach, perhaps a risk-based one that recertifies companies only when they are identified as a potential contract winner.

Several of the grounds cited by the CVE as a basis for denying the application for inclusion in the VetBiz VIP database are described in such generalized and ambiguous terms that the court is essentially left to guess as to the precise…

I agree completely with Congressman Cummings and the bill's co-sponsors that the home of any servicemember who is deployed should never be subject to foreclosure, judicial or nonjudicial, and regardless of when the mortgage was incurred.

That is the big problem that I have with 5747. It is a great idea, but you cannot implement it as it is now.

5747 puts an unworkable burden out there with no real solution that I can see.

I agree completely with Mr. Cummings and the bill's co-sponsors that the home of any servicemember who is deployed should simply never be subject to foreclosure.

There are simply too many factors that cannot be anticipated when a servicemember deploys and communication is too difficult from war zones for banks and mortgage companies to be seizing and selling servicemembers' homes while they are off…

Pretty clear the young men and women returning from war, those in the reserves and in the guard have a real serious reemployment problem.

The Veterans Reemployment Act of 2012 amends the basic law so that undue hardship protections apply only to small businesses, eliminating the protections that the large businesses currently have.

My bill, Help the Veterans Return to Work Act, addresses a major problem not only in northern California but throughout the United States, the tragically high unemployment rate among veterans.

But, the responsibility lies at the top. And if we are not meeting our veterans' needs, the responsibility that we have for our veterans and the benefits that they are waiting for and deserve, at what point does leadership step up and make…

How do we justify giving taxpayer dollars in bonuses to those who are responsible for the program?

It is also our job as a Committee and as a Congress to ensure that VBA is not merely developing a band-aid for a bullet wound.

The backlog, processing times, and the rate of error seems to have become the norm rather than the exception and this is unacceptable.

Veterans are one of the most honored and most vulnerable groups in our great Nation.