Steve Buyer: “What this means, Mr. Chairman, is we still have work to do. And I didn't want to be overcritical about the pressure the…”

I only wish your conference had made you chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, I really do, because you and I could have done a lot of great things together. In reality, the unwritten history will be the success of the committee…

What I would like to comment on now, Mr. Speaker, really deals with a problem in the House rules that I think needs to be corrected as we go into the next session of Congress. So with regard to jurisdiction, lines of jurisdiction with…

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I want to compliment the authors of the legislation in your work on this. But I would like to point out something before we get too excited about whether we are doing a good thing today. Number one…

The most important thing is our military medical readiness.