Jack Bergman

I look forward to continuing our work and Committee to advance effective accreditation reform that protects our veterans and their rights.

This bipartisan bill will reimplement penalties for unaccredited agents... and protect the right for veterans to seek help.

Well, we are the United States of America. The best solutions come at, by far, the local levels.

We are all God's people. And guess who put all the minerals here? It wasn't happenstance.

For me, this is a chance to rekindle some thoughts I had as a young boy...

The people occupying the leadership positions in Minnesota right now still could be part of a problem ongoing.

Wouldn't it be better to have the infrastructure here now instead of waiting until--oh, my God, we are being invaded.

This is really coming back to my roots in so many ways.

Will the Air Force investigate the groundwater contamination on the east side of Van Etten Lake to determine if contamination is linked to the former base?

Will the Air Force commit to implement these four interim remedial actions without delay?

In my district, at the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda, Michigan, the Air Force has been collecting data on PFAS contamination for more than 13 years, and the Air Force is still years away from having a final clean-up plan.

The good news--the way the Air Force does its pilot training and has it down to a science...

It's time. Assessing--it is time. It is time to take the plane airborne, if you will, and take it a different way.

Will the Air Force commit to stop the flow--stop the flow of PFAS into public waterways and contain it within the boundaries of the base?

We set the gold standard for global aviation safety and produce the best pilots in the world.

As this Committee begins work on the FAA Reauthorization bill, I'd like to ask that committee members keep safety top of mind.

Since our last major aviation accident, Colgan Air flight 3407 which killed 49 passengers and crew and one person on the ground, there have been two fatalities in domestic commercial air travel over 13 years.

As a lifelong aviator, I have seen firsthand the evolution of air travel in the United States.

Each incident over the last 100 plus years of commercial flight has taught us lessons that we have incorporated into policy changes.

We have strived and succeeded in making air travel as safe as possible.

Does the Air Force truly believe that a 100-year-old airplane will compete in a contested environment against China in 2050?

Let us put the guardrails in place to protect veterans from those bad actors and from those practices that we do not like.

Are we as effective as we could be?

I do not think anybody in this room, no matter who you are, would disagree with the following statement that we want to have effective outcomes for our veterans, positive outcomes.

Would it be better for everyone involved if these claims were filed correctly and resolved on the first go around?