we need to address the lack of accessible mental healthcare across the force.

I share these concerns and would add that while--why I support taking steps, whatever necessary, to widen the pool of applicants we can draw from for our All-Volunteer Force.

It's important not to lose sight of the importance quality of life has in reaching end-strength goals.

This is something that we need to work together on to be able to address and ensure that our service members don't just get adequate care, but they get the best care that our country can provide.

Ensuring access to quality healthcare, safe housing, affordable child care, and the right pay and benefits package is critical to sustaining the health of the Force.

We ask them to risk their lives, be able to protect our country. And the promise that we make back to them is that we will have their backs.

I believe it may be time we consider reevaluating whether there are additional ways that we could help deliver important support to our service members and their families.

We can and should review how the pandemic affected the Department of Defense.

Yes, there are deep divisions in our politics in Congress. But if ever there was a place where we can come together, it would be in this committee charged with supporting those that protect us.

During the last Congress, Mr. Burchett and I introduced this important bill as part of a two-bill microloan major impact package. Together, these bills would increase the number of microloan lenders in our communities, increase access to…

The time to act is now, starting with this amendment.

I assert and argue that Planned Parenthood is neither a hotel nor a restaurant.

Their behavior is completely unacceptable. Our federal bureaucracy must be responsible for its actions.

This is our job to provide oversight which is why I support the Williams amendment.

If we do not require these things to be done and said and provide the oversight, we are derelict in our duty.

In 2018, I was at a home in a retirement community along the Jersey Shore. A gentleman pulled me aside and, in a whispered voice, shared with me that he pays over $500 a month for prescription drugs and couldn't keep up. He resorted to…

I believe this one to be just at the top in terms of the most powerful ones that I have been a part of.

I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Add at the end of subtitle A of title XXVIII the following new section: SEC. 28__. LOCAL HIRE…

I very much agree with you that we are feeling like we are in this new paradigm-shift moment...

I think it is really important--and I would like to work with you--on how we define success to the American people.

So I guess I wanted to ask you as we are coming out from this pandemic, SBA has been in touch and connected and helped so many more businesses than ever before...

climate change is very much a part of the world that SBA plays in helping businesses

that seems terribly wrong. If the person was approved and then somewhere in the process there was a rule change, I think it is only reasonable that some exception be made

I would like to work with you on that.

I will say that we know from Treasury's analysis that 97 percent of small businesses would not be affected by any tax increases.