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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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