Steve Lynch

I firmly believe that there is a medical benefit for veterans to be treated by veterans.

Regrettably, the suicide crisis that has endured and markedly increased in our veteran community over the past decade stands as a stark reminder that we must redouble our efforts to address continued gaps in veterans' care.

Today's hearing will mark our first step in our subcommittee investigation to examine the devastating suicide crisis affecting our Nation's veterans, and Active-Duty military members.

I can tell you that the insurance industry doesn't operate that way and that was just an unfortunate and gross exception

We should treat our postal workers with respect and decency, based on the job that they do.

Privatization, which I firmly oppose, would require the taxpayer in the United States to take the $38 billion in underfunded liability from the postal workers' pensions.

To try to say that we're all of a sudden going to just switch this over.

The Postal Service has been funded by stamps. Stamps. That's how we fund it.

The tactic of this Administration and the strategy of this Administration has been to circumvent the oversight responsibility of Congress

We've lost 2,400 people here. And the United States taxpayer has funded all of that. Yet, when we ask for data to report on how our troops are equipped and how this effort is going, we're being denied information.

Therefore, it is critical that Congress not just think about how much money is provided to Afghanistan if you decide to do so, but how it is provided and what kind of oversight is available to protect the U.S. taxpayer dollars in those…

I certainly support their recommendations that we require licensed technicians and engineers on site and we have adequate supervisory staffing at all times--no waivers, no exceptions.

Pipeline safety is an incredibly important hearing.

Congressman Lynch, our goal is to complete the Merrimack Valley investigation this September, before the one-year anniversary.

We can't get into that process. We get bounced out all the time.

I don't want to use all my time on this, but I am not having the same experience with FERC, OK?

I am afraid that what has happened in Merrimack Valley is going to happen in one of my neighborhoods and we are going to have a massive loss of life.

We require licensed technicians and engineers on site and we have adequate supervisory staffing at all times--no waivers, no exceptions.

I want to associate myself with the remarks of Mrs. Trahan and Mr. Moulton, my colleagues from Massachusetts.

I want to thank the gentlewoman from California for her leadership on this issue and also for yielding me this time. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H. Res. 206, a resolution that acknowledges the threat to our national security…

Let's focus on the real oversight needs of the census, information technology and cybersecurity, and stop this partisan attack on the census.

What was he hiding from the Congress. What's the real reason that the Trump administration wanted to add this unconstitutional citizenship question?

The judges who examined this evidence held that the Voting Rights Act claim was a fake justification for the citizenship question.

This administration has done everything in its power to suppress the vote, not to help people exercise their right to vote.

This sudden behind-the-scenes scramble to transfer sensitive technology to a foreign nation without informing Congress... would constitute a dangerous and blatant violation of the Atomic Energy Act.