Clay Higgins

America wins. Veterans win, baby. That is why we are here, right?

H.R. 5693, the Long-Term Care Veterans Choice Act, gives much-needed choice and personal dignity back to these brave men and women.

Woman, I thank my colleague from Louisiana for supporting the bill, and I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support this commonsense amendment, as well as final passage of the chairman's bill. Madam Chairwoman, I yield back…

I am quite disturbed that DoD is not here, because I would like to ask them who the genius was that came up with this idea to create--we have essentially--we have essentially as a Nation deployed chemical and biological weapons upon our…

But to think that we have purposefully deployed burn pits and created chemical and biological fumes and smokes to deploy upon our own troops is very disturbing.

My final suggestion, Mr. Chairman, and to the panel and to the VSOs present, is that the DoD should hear, as the noise of thunder from all of us, that they were not present today.

I would like to state for all present that it is quite disturbing that DoD is not present.

I personally think it's a great threat to our nation.

I very much appreciate your service to your country and your continued commitment to restore energy dominance of America in your current position.

I appreciate you appearing before myself and my colleagues today. Thank you for your service to our country.

This lack of action in the Senate injured your ability to serve and protect our Nation, Madam?

But I am specifically asking, and I ask so respectfully, sir, how exactly would so-called comprehensive universal background checks manifest in the United States of America----

The American people expect the Federal Government to operate within the parameters of the revenue that we take in.

This committee is going to expect excellent response from the agencies responsible for spending the people's treasure on this perhaps the worst idea in the history of best practices in capital planning ideas.

I am here now and we are going to make some noise about this.

We are a Nation that is $20 trillion in debt, and yet we continue to have conversations and throw around numbers like $4 billion for an office complex.

This conversation we are having today is exactly reflective of why the American citizens that we serve just stare upon Washington, DC in disbelief.

I would suggest to my colleagues that today's hearing has made clear the extent to which our nation's research and development is targeted and exposed.

I think that it has the potential to make things go more quickly with one caveat which is it would have to free the State up from all the compliance issues.

We couldn't agree more that it is not going fast enough, and that is true in Houston and throughout the whole region.

If we can develop standards and processes within the DHS and its various components that are reflective of best standards in private industry and efficient management, would the entire Department of Homeland Security not run more…

A Nation where a man is considered innocent until proven guilty.

I think we need to move forward very cautiously as we explore the broadened use of blockchain technology.

A hungry child is concerned about the--overcoming that hunger at that moment with food provided by the American farmer, as opposed to most likely, probable, or potentially increased risk of cancer sometime down the line.

We all want to protect the American people from unnecessary harm, but we also want to move forward with sound science as we do so.