Tim Walz

I support the VA policy on this. I support 38 CFR 74.

What I am trying to figure out is, is how we use what you have given us, how we apply that to improve.

What you are doing is not just defrauding the taxpayers, you are cheating a veteran who is coming back from serving this Nation.

I am curious about this. You know, I mentioned one. They said, no, it is seven.

How did you get that done? So you got a hundred percent of these contractors that are helping with verification are veteran-owned small businesses that is great and that is a positive story.

It has been 4 days since the CBS News program ``60 Minutes'' ran a troubling piece on insider trading in this very House. Mr. Speaker, you and I and our colleagues are the only people in this august body today who are exempt from insider…

It is our responsibility, as Senator Brown said, for this institution to uphold the human rights as well as trade deals that were signed onto.

We cannot simply wait out the inevitable power of the Internet to move the hearts and minds of the Chinese people.

I applaud this move as a positive first step and look forward to learning what we can do to address this pressing issue.

If you're a free market capitalist here, this has to really appall you, doesn't it?

It's always humbling to sit here and see the folks who are on the front line of fighting for human rights.

We're deeply troubled by your account, and I associate myself with Senator Brown's concern for your family.

I think we'll see an acceleration in human rights abuses very quickly.

I certainly think you are hitting on a powerful tool here that can have multiple benefits, both from human rights and economic fairness.

There's a ripple effect on jobs here.

I want to know this too, where they are going.

As a veteran I cannot tell you how happy I am that you are out there.

We are the strongest supporters of the VA and the harshest critics.

We have to get it done.

Bipartisanship is not dead. There are policies grounded in common sense that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle can agree upon. I'm proud to be part of a group of lawmakers, Democrat and Republican, who are fighting to complete the Lewis…

Thank you for holding this hearing on the report from the Congressional-Executive Commission on China but thank the two of you for being beacons and role models for all of us on the quest for human rights.

We must continue to signal to those in China who yearn and hope for reform...

Only the Chinese people will change China.

Walz, Hon. Tim, a U.S. Representative from Minnesota; Ranking Member, Congressional-Executive Commission on China.

The other commission that was created by Congress, of course, deals with other major problems including political and military as well as economic security.