H.R. 1025 (Rep. Walz, D-MN) passed the House on 11 October 2011 and has been referred to the Senate.

I rise today to let folks know that the American can-do spirit and the spirit of innovation is alive and well in southern Minnesota. Last week, I visited United Machine and Foundry in Winona, Minnesota. UMF is a small business that opened…

Thanks to both of you. I know you are busy folks, but if we can find a reason to bring you up here, I always feel better when you are here.

My only regret today is that our fellow Americans couldn't see how this was done.

I think it has been hit on, the multiple returns not just to the warriors who earned every bit of our support.

I want to thank you both for your passion on this for bringing this hearing together.

I am truly impressed with my colleagues asking, and the answers you gave, about measuring effectiveness with symmetrics.

I can't help but leave much more optimistic, much more encouraged to where things are at.

Mr. Speaker, I urge the support of this important piece of legislation. Again, I thank the gentleman from Ohio and the staff on both sides for putting together an important piece of legislation for America's veterans. As I have no further…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. I would like to thank the gentleman for his hard work on this bill as well as the chairman and the ranking member. I would also like to thank the gentleman for his service to this Nation in…

In this Chamber, there is a lot of back and forth about who creates jobs and who doesn't. Some have suggested it's not government, only business, or vice versa. It's both. How about the construction worker who built a Federal highway so…