Political Quotes

“I thank Ranking Member, Filner for yielding. As my colleagues have stated, our veterans' safety should be one of our top priorities, and the Veterans Sexual Assault Prevention and Health Care Enhancement Act does just that. I would like to thank Chairman Miller and Ranking Member Bob Filner, the chair of the subcommittee, as well as all of my colleagues on the House Veterans Affairs' Committee, for working in such a bipartisan manner to get this very important health care bill to the floor. Within H.R. 2074, I would like to highlight two important provisions, and you heard the chairwoman explain the bill very eloquently. The first provision I would like to highlight is section 2, which was offered by the chair of the Subcommittee on Health, Ms. Buerkle. The provision will correct the troubling findings in a GAO report. The report essentially found that veterans and employees were exposed to personal dangers, including sexual assault. This is simply unacceptable, and I want to thank the subcommittee chair for offering this bill to us. The second provision I would like to highlight is in section 3, my provision of the bill. Section 3 would provide much needed flexibility in the way the State veterans' homes get reimbursed for the care they provide to veterans who need that care for a service-connected condition or a service-connected condition of 70 percent or greater. This will ensure that these veterans are not put out on the streets.…”