We should not be in the business of picking winners and losers, and we should make sure that these industries have the opportunity.

There is a perception issue both in what they are going to get and what they expect to get.

The strategic need for the F-35, I think everyone knows that.

I think we need to take more of the lead on this. I think we need to make sure, because I think as science moves along, the research possibilities are still out there, and I think we are shutting doors.

But I would suggest to my colleagues here, why were we so willing to give up to the executive branch the authority to make these decisions, and why we gave away our power with the expiration of the Agent Orange Act.

Is it naive of me to think that after 25 years of that and the biennial reviews by the National Academy of Sciences, a meta-analysis of all the research that was out there, did we just do a wonderful job of picking the last two things they…

Last summer when the Agent Orange Act was coming to expire, 53 of us co-sponsored that and it ended with a whimper without even a floor vote.

I thank the gentleman for yielding time. I rise in support of the SHARE Act and the Sportsmen's Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act. I thank my co-chair on the Sportsmen's Caucus, Mr. Wittman, for his work on this bill. Like so many…

I think it's important information with the hearing that's going to be next week up in New Hampshire with Ms. Kuster.

I think our issue, especially with these toxic wound exposures in battle, it differs from cancer...

My concern is, though, when do we make a decision that we've tried hard enough or that we've reached that point.

As you have heard, I associate myself with the remarks of the positive nature of the provisions in this bill. It has been the House Veterans' Affairs Committee that has been in the forefront of improving veterans care, from the post-9/11…