Steve Buyer

I believe that sports therapy is among the most valuable rehabilitative tools that we can provide our wounded warriors.

This increase is long overdue, and I urge my colleagues to support this legislation.

The issue of homelessness is sad from any perspective, but it is especially troubling when formerly proud members of the armed forces and defenders of liberty are living on the streets of the country they helped defend.

While actual numbers are difficult to assess, it is estimated that each night, more than a hundred thousand of our Nation's veterans find themselves sleeping in doorways, beneath viaducts, in their cars, tents, or wherever they can find…

The President pledged to sign an executive order to rescind VA's 2003 decision to suspend enrollment of Priority group 8 veterans.

It is my hope that you will help create a Department of transparency and trust that will make all veterans view the VA as a 'Veteran's Advocate.'

Caring for our veterans should not be a partisan issue--we must all work together to ensure the resources are available for the VA to carry out its mission.

So it is about quality and it is about how we take care of people.

I know from my tenure on the Armed Services Committee that you are a man of principle and you are a man that reflects the Army's values.

He is now proposing in the stimulus plan to say well, gee, let's go to the Federal Government. We don't want to change our program. Let's go to the Federal Government and ask for 200 billion-plus to bail out those judgments of the past. So…

I would ask all colleagues to support H.R. 4918, a bill to name the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Miami, Florida, as the ``Bruce W. Carter Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.'' I want to thank my colleague Dr…

I rise in support of H.R. 4289, a bill to name the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Ponce, Puerto Rico, as the ``Euripides Rubio Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic.'' I commend my colleague Mr. Fortuno of…

I voted for your Amtrak bill and I support the increase in our transportation, and I appreciate the deference of the chairman for not objecting to your words being outside of the nexus of the bill. I think they were inclusive of the nexus…

My point is that because this Congress has now chosen not to work on these very important issues facing the country, whether it's decreasing the energy prices, on immigration, solvency of Social Security, Medicare, all of these list of…

I wanted the gentlelady to know when you brought up the issue about, Well, here's what occurred when you were in charge, we had great deference to the Speaker and the access to the floor.

The bill before us creates these epileptic centers to be associated with the five polytrauma centers. In order for veterans to gain access to them, they have to be able to travel to get there. The increased price of energy is very…

I would like everyone to know that we all enjoyed Julia very much. But I want you to know this, what just happened in the well is Andre responded to the Speaker with two words that would make Julia very proud. His first two words as a new…

It is disappointing that the objection was so loud and clear. I do remember coming here in the minority, and at the time it was referred to as the Imperial Congress. It has not taken you very long to get back to where you were. That is…

The only thing I would note, as I listened to the Speaker speak in the well, is that when the Republicans presented their budget proposal as an alternative, we spent $8 billion more than the majority in the 10-year scope, actually in the…

I believe that it is conceivable that at some point one of these needed Traumatic Brain Injury Centers of Excellence could be located in the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which could be named the…

I would like to thank Mr. Michaud because he did his committee work. He did his committee work because we brought a bill to the floor. Yes, under suspension, Mr. Filner, but he did his committee work. He filed a report which allowed us to…

Thank you very much. I reclaim my time. That's the commitment that I came to the floor here today knowing that yes, you wanted to create this trust fund and understanding whether or not there are any guidelines, your commitment to me to…

GAO even did an analysis of the expansion. We asked them to look at it with regard to Medicare, when you tried to do it on Medicare, and pass the House. We know that any time you expand Federal pricing and you increase the pool, drug…

Sure. If Federal discounts expand, price levels would be pushed up, the VA would pay a higher price for the drugs it provides to veterans. So this would place an increased pressure on the funding of veterans health care.

I offered two amendments directly to the Rules Committee asking one of my colleagues, who is the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, to do these amendments, and they were denied. It was dumbfounding to me.