Mark Walker

This legislation would save taxpayer money and bring needed accountability to the Federal agencies.

Families are the building blocks of communities. It is hard to imagine anything more disruptive to a family than losing a parent or a spouse to incarceration.

Thank you and Mr. Heyer and all those who have just bulldogged this thing where you refuse to allow injustice to continue to permeate, even in the halls of this government.

To me this is not only a question of taking responsibility for the IRS and Department's web-accessible services and data but of understanding the cybersecurity risks these online services and applications face.

Without changes to the Federal budget, we are on a path to fiscal crisis with spending, deficits, and debt continuing to balloon out of control.

What our country needs and what our people expect is courage. There is no greater opportunity to show that courage than in fiscal reform.

Under the First Amendment, we want to make sure that everybody's opportunity to protest, to speak out on things they believe in, is always protected.

I hope that we are able to really fulfill our promises to the American people in getting to the bottom of some of the issues and concerns that we have with the ACA as a whole.

I'm also concerned about the millions of people who have been damaged, even unintentional, by the Affordable Care Act.

I think that's what makes our democracy great.

What did those 25 Members know that either the other Members did not know or sadly in some cases chose to ignore?

At some point the people are saying what is going on here? So this is just a perception. This is the reality of a major trust issue.

To pull the rug out from under these local law enforcements with absolutely no warning or no consideration, I believe, is preposterous.

The last thing that we want is more Federal regulations on these men and women who are working hard to provide jobs out in the industry.

Do you understand why the Animas spill has exacerbated concerns that the Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'') is not qualified to manage our Nation's waterways through the Agency's new overarching Waters of the United States…

this is a catastrophic compromise.

If it is not--if there is not a theological thread that runs through this--and I am speaking as a former minister of 15 years... it tells me there is somewhere there is--even if it is extremist, there is a religious thread involved in this.

The American Legion also supports veterans having apprenticeship and on-the-job training programs added to the Post-9/11 GI Bill.

The American Legion supports the amendments to the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act that will protect military spouses from income tax liability.

The American Legion believes the increase in grant money for specially adapted housing and automobiles will provide severely injured veterans with a specific quality of life that they are entitled to.