Congress needs to do more to bolster VA's current efforts to modernize its operations and promote further improvements.

All they expect is that, in return for their service, our nation keeps its promises to them.

Congress needs to do more to bolster the VA's current efforts to modernize its operations.

Once again, I thank the chairman for a smart piece of legislation. It is simple. It strikes that proper balance between safety on our roads and a smooth flow of commerce. This is a matter of life and death. It has been a bitter cold…

We want to keep our citizens safe and we want to move important products, and we have to figure out strike that balance.

He doesn't believe there are three fire departments in America that could respond in an urban area to a Casselton type of incident.

They referred to these as incidents—not accidents. And it kind of changes the point of view on how we're getting after it.

The problem we have, sometimes, though is the city of La Crescent was there also, and they said I happen to know Winona's got a better grant writer, because we're smaller.

Thank you to the chairman and the ranking member for your incredible hard work. The folks of Oklahoma and Minnesota should be proud of the representatives that they have sent here. I am proud of this piece of legislation. I stand in…

I appreciate having the Financial Institutions Subcommittee Chair, Shelley Capito, as a cosponsor of the legislation.

I have worked across the aisle, with my colleague Michael Grimm, to introduce the Federal Adjustment in Reporting Student Credit Act.

To me, however, college affordability is probably one of the top priorities we need to be focused on.