This thoroughly bipartisan effort takes the first step towards addressing the detrimental health effects of fighting fires.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I ask unanimous consent to enter into the record letters of support for H.R.

The IAFF and our members applaud Representative Chris Collins for introducing H.R. 931 and those who have co-sponsored the legislation.

It is going to be a continued issue that we all face and it would be naive to think we can put an end to it.

That's it's going to be one and done. That there is going to be one major vote that includes some of the changes that the House Freedom Caucus demanded and got.

Four of my counties do not have acceptable broadband coverage.

I want to stress again what we are trying to do here is to make health care accessible, to make it affordable and to cut out the red tape and to bring the free market back.

I am going to pretty much direct this to Dr. Holtz-Eakin.

while they apparently negotiated a significant settlement, it in fact did not reimburse the Federal Government for 20 years of egregious behavior which I would say was deliberate.

I think that the belief that significant flexibilities or block grants or per capita caps would automatically mean less delivery of care ignores that economists on the right and left center of the aisle believe there's significant…

I think you owe it to put something like that up there or change the charter or get us to change it.