Steve Lynch

It is indeed ironic that we have a member of a body that has 6 percent approval criticizing the employees who have 84 percent approval rating in the eyes of our constituents.

It would basically eliminate--out of that $50 billion in unfunded liability, it would just about eliminate all of it, is that right?

I have been listening closely, you know, because you have different groups out there.

Thank you for your courage and your willingness to come forward and try to make sure that this does not happen again.

It is a problem of a willingness here in Congress to grapple with that problem.

We do not have control of our border.

We want our screeners to do a damn good job. So the priority has to be safety and security.

I cannot not criticize when we have a 90 percent failure rate, so that has got to change.

Don't let the DOD hear you say that.

If 68,000 have opiod use disorders and that is 13 percent of the veterans on opioids, that is a huge, huge problem.

Also, Representative Jim McGovern of Massachusetts has also reintroduced legislation to establish a grant program to assist nonprofit organizations in developing and establishing service dog programs for veterans.

Chairman DeSantis, my colleague on this committee, has introduced H.R. 4764, a bill to require the VA to commence the service dog pilot program right away that is specific to post-9/11 veterans with severe PTS.

I am proud to cosponsor two pieces of bipartisan legislation that have been introduced in Congress to facilitate the use of service dogs to assist our veterans.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to thank you for holding this hearing to examine the efforts undertaken by the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide service dogs to veterans of the U.S. armed forces to assist with treatment for…

I do want to associate myself with the words of the chairman and the ranking member earlier on on this issue.

Why would we provide a lesser standard for good old American citizens when the consequences, you know, are not regarding terrorism or, you know, imminent threats?

The Fourth Amendment doesn't just protect places, it protects people.

I would side with the chairman, Mr. Chaffetz, and Senator Wyden in requiring your reasonable cause a standard for this type of intrusion.

This is not the general public, so there should be no hedging.

I just think that that is happy talk with all due respect.

The enhanced personnel security program of an agency shall integrate social media. So shall means shall.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank you and also Chairman Meadows for their good work and Ranking Member Connolly for holding this hearing to examine the implementation of the Visa Waiver Program.

She opposed this bill because employees deserve the same protections, she said, as investors. This makes sense. This is easy. We should be able to do what we want to do here and stimulate the economy, yet, at the same time, allow these…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. It is very rare that I get to speak in opposition to such bad legislation, but not only do we have a single bill that is bad legislation, my friends across the aisle have packaged five bad bills and…

There is not a lot of shame at the table today, but this is disgraceful.