So if you can help me with getting the flagpole at Togus back into service that would be important to veterans in Maine.

I hope you will continue to do that because it is such a meaningful benefit and it is so meaningful to the families.

I hope that might be a bit of a focus of your work is to find ways to recognize and acknowledge those volunteers because I think they are really important.

This is a sacred topic.

That cemetery is full and it has no greater capacity.

I think this is one of the most successful programs we are engaged in and we need to maintain our support and continue our oversight.

I think those are the unsung heroes.

I rise with immense pride to be from Maine this afternoon. I want to thank my colleague for not only the hard work that she and the members of the Appropriations Committee have put in over the past 4 months to bring this bill to the place…

Let's get on with it.

Eisenhower retook Europe in 11 months.

I would urge you to take a serious look at that. And we have had testimony at this Committee that this is one of the suicide factors.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First, I want to thank the Chairman and the Ranking Member and the Committee staff for facilitating an authorized field hearing that we had in Maine last Friday on--it was fabulous--on long-term care.

Eisenhower retook Europe in 11 months.

Well, my experience has been that the Vet Centers in Maine are a high return, low cost service very cost-effective way of serving the needs, meeting the needs of veterans.

I would urge you to take a serious look at that. And we have had testimony at this Committee that this is one of the suicide factors.

Let's get on with it.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First, I want to thank the Chairman and the Ranking Member and the Committee staff for facilitating an authorized field hearing that we had in Maine last Friday on--it was fabulous--on long-term care.

I would like to ask unanimous consent that my defense fellow, Michael Marfut, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of the 118th Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I recently read a book by the great historian William L. Shirer--not ``The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,'' which we all read some years ago, but a book about the fall of the Third Republic. It was about France between the wars, between…

Well, my experience has been that the Vet Centers in Maine are a high return, low cost service very cost-effective way of serving the needs, meeting the needs of veterans.

Well, my experience has been that the Vet Centers in Maine are a high return, low cost service very cost-effective way of serving the needs, meeting the needs of veterans.

The workforce problems, as you can imagine, were front and center.

First, I want to thank the Chairman and the Ranking Member and the Committee staff for facilitating an authorized field hearing that we had in Maine last Friday on--it was fabulous--on long-term care.

Eisenhower retook Europe in 11 months.

I would urge you to take a serious look at that. And we have had testimony at this Committee that this is one of the suicide factors.