I oppose the bill in its current form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Ms. Kuster of New Hampshire moves to recommit the bill H.R. 5895 to the Committee on Appropriations…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule XX, this 5-minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by 5- minutes votes on: Passage of the bill; and…

This is the final amendment to the bill, which will not kill the bill nor send it back to committee. If adopted, the bill will immediately proceed to final passage as amended. As a member of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, I have…

I think for us, and what you are hearing from us, and it may take bipartisan legislation that we would draft to put together to say we should have a presumption because I don't see why there is any reason to wait.

So I guess--and I want to share the Ranking Member's concern about the testimony about women veterans, birth defects.

I think this is something that we have got consensus on. We want to move forward.

Thank you very much, and congratulations. We are pleased to have you on board as our chair.

We didn't get from the VISN to the central office, again, until this all played out in the Boston Globe.

I want to work together in a bipartisan way as our Committee does, but we need leadership from the top.

I continue to have whistleblowers come. And in the case that I have been talking about today, there was a long period of delay because the whistleblowers were concerned about their anonymity.

After it was in the Boston Globe that Secretary Shulkin showed up virtually the next day.

we need to create an environment where concerns are addressed at the earliest possible date.