Help us help you and the veterans you serve by coming out today in support of H.R. 813.

As you are well aware, for several years now Maine has had an excellent, real-world experience with the use of heavier trucks, 6-axle trucks, that are permitted on both State and interstate highways under our 20-year pilot program.

Those who have given their lives deserve to be honored by saying enough is enough with the delay and foot-dragging.

FRA is officially on the record stating that we believe a multiple-person crew enhances safety.

PTC should not be a pretext to eliminating a member of the train crew.

It is absurd to suggest that inward-facing cameras are a tool to reduce fatigue.

AAR, NTSB safety advocates, and numerous lawmakers, including myself, have called for retrofit or phase-out of the older tank cars.

I believe veterans would be much more satisfied to get a claim in a matter of weeks as opposed to a matter of months or years.

If you can't measure it, you can't manage it.

We owe it to America's veterans to provide certain and stable VA budget funding.

Those individuals who today are upstanding members of the community and suffered from posttraumatic stress ought to be given a second look.

I am also personally committed to determining what we can do more and better to help veterans who suffer from posttraumatic stress.

There is nothing partisan about supporting this bill or any other measure that provides what we owe to our veterans.

We owe it to America's veterans to provide certain and stable VA budgets.

Maintaining our nation's economic leadership in the decades ahead will require highly skilled and educated employees.

What happens when veterans fade away and are no longer on the front page of the papers?

Providing veterans with an opportunity for employment is a top priority of this committee.

Today we can take a meaningful step to ensure the sanctity of our national cemeteries. These grounds are hallowed for the men and women who fought selflessly on our behalf. With that, I encourage my colleagues to support this legislation…

I support this legislation to allow the VA or the Secretary of the Army to reconsider their decisions to inter individuals at our Veterans National Cemeteries, to include Arlington National Cemetery. With this legislation, individuals who…

At this time I would like to yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Negrete McLeod). Mrs. NEGRETE McLEOD. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 1402 that extends VA housing programs for homeless veterans. The California…

Once again I would urge my colleagues to support H.R. 3521, as amended. I yield back the balance of my time.

I would like to once again thank Chairman Miller for his collaborative effort in bringing both of these bills before the House today and his continued support to make sure that we do everything we can to pass legislation that will help our…

I think our number one priority should be making sure the veteran is taken care of, not whether or not that claim is processed in a regional office.

Unfortunately, most of those reviews have repeatedly pointed out serious issues of mismanagement, lack of oversight, overages on expenditures, delays in construction, and multiple instances of insufficient guidance.

Repeatedly, the IG and the GAO has pointed out serious issues with mismanagement, overage, delays in construction within the VA system.