Mr. Speaker, I also yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Thompson) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill, H.R. 5714. The…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself as much time as I may consume. I want to thank my friend from Pennsylvania for his remarks and for clearly stating this commonsense piece of legislation and for his support of it. I, too, would like to thank the…

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

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.'

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

One veteran lost to suicide is too many.