Gilbert Gutknecht: “I mentioned earlier, we also need to say thank you and kudos to the families. You cannot help but think about what the…”

it is a very simple amendment, but I think it is very important and one that an awful lot of groups are paying attention to. There is a program we have had in the farm bill for a very long time, the Wetland Reserve Program, that has become…

I rise to pay tribute and to honor the memory of Travis Bruce. Mr. Speaker, it is perhaps ironic that, as the family of Specialist Travis Bruce was learning the tragic news, I was at the military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany. We all ask…

They have been up performing surgery since 2 o'clock in the morning. I mentioned that Dr. Mike Yaszmenski from Mayo Clinic, he did not take the credit for it, but the story that we were all standing there when they pinned the Purple Heart…

That is exactly what Melvin Laird said about Vietnam. That is why it was important to turn Vietnam, as soon as possible, back to the Vietnamese people. He said the greatest mistake was the Americanization of the Vietnam War. I think that…