Tim Walz

I am very uncomfortable with the proposal that's been put forward.

My only glimmer of optimism, Mr. Gibson, is my personal faith in you.

I can't stress enough, if it falls short in any way of achieving these things, the difficulty on those dollars are going to be even more.

I do agree that the importance of this weapon system as to our airpower and our national security strategy is pretty clear to everyone.

The VA can't achieve its mission of providing the highest quality care to our veterans if we have a culture of fear.

I do think I associate with the gentleman, we are very proud of the crop insurance program and it seems to be working the way we kind of intended.

I want to express my sincere appreciation to you and your team, and to those folks out in those FSA offices in the country.

I am very proud of the work we did on the farm bill.

This could very well have profound impacts, which I think it will; but it also has the potential to show how democracy should work correctly.

And that leads me to having you here. I think this is an incredibly important panel.

And there better be some soul searching on both sides of the aisle on this, as to let the science and the research drive us to come up with conclusions that work.

Yes, it is the 800 pound gorilla in the room, but the science and the preponderance of the evidence on this seems to warrant where we are headed.

The issue of congressional, prerogative and privilege, we are together on this. We want it. We need it.

I believe this is a unique opportunity for transformational change, and this window will close over a certain amount of time.

This idea of moving towards solutions--and it is not that we will ever going to stop having accountability.

It truly is one of the greatest honors that I have experienced in my life.

It takes courage, though, to do that, right?

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When I think now people from Maine, I think of Mr. Michaud, no nonsense, practical, hearty, dependable, consistent, all those things.

I urge all of the Members of this Committee to support this legislation so that we can begin to turn the tide against suicide.

I urge all of my colleagues to support this important piece of legislation and show our Veterans with action, and not just promises, that we have them 'covered.'

The reality is the VA has done very little in the way of studying Agent Orange affects in anybody ever, in the whole history of Vietnam veterans coming home.

As far as the Toxic Research Exposure Act of 2014, this is an issue we have been looking at for quite a number of years now.

Vietnam Veterans of America have held numerous over 100, almost 150 now of town hall meetings all across the country asking veterans about their exposures to Agent Orange and how they think it affected their families.

We would like to thank Representative Walz and Chairman Miller for bringing forth this bipartisan legislation.