Tim Walz

With an increasing number of female veterans, the VA must expand its care and services to meet their needs.

The model of the Veterans Administration basically comes straight from Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural.

I urge my colleagues to support this measure so we can pass it quickly into law and start addressing an issue that all of us know happens all too often.

While there is no bill that will completely end veteran suicide, this comprehensive bipartisan measure is a step in the right direction.

One veteran lost to suicide is too many.

This bill is what you get when you have folks sitting around a table, trusting one another and working to get it right for our Nation's veterans.

H.R. 5059 is the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act. It is an example of how we get things right on Capitol Hill.

Instead of presuming to know what is best for Veterans, we should simply ask them, don't you think?

My bill H.R. 4977 the Creating Options for Veterans Expedited Recovery Act, COVER we call it, will help remedy this tragic problem.

I am embarrassed that they are grateful to me because that veteran should have been able to do that on their own.

We just have to make sure that, as we put regulations in place, they mesh with what are the best practices.

We know, and we have the data to prove it.

Thank you for holding this bipartisan and important hearing.

It is an economic issue. It impacts everything from water quality to the farmers' bottom lines.

I never understood as a military person myself why there was no equivalent of the quadrennial defense review?

I think restoring that trust is one of the first and paramount things.

The report you issued is very damning to the VA.

The situation in Phoenix and elsewhere that provided even one veteran substandard care is simply unacceptable.

I think this is the thing, and we have heard it before, I mean it is hard to fathom that this kind of stuff happens or the pettiness that goes on.

I believe this IR has regulatory effect and that this effect may serve to dis-incentivize the very practices we are hoping to promote.

I am concerned with the process by which this interpretive rule was effectively finalized.

I respectfully request that you withdraw the interpretive rule.

Our goal is clean water, and that is best achieved by focusing more on facilitating compliance and less on punitive enforcement mechanisms.

I and jointly with Ranking Member Tim Bishop have written a letter to the House Appropriations Committee requesting their support in directing EPA resources towards pilot projects.

This is a pivotal moment that we are at, pivotal.