On the recordOctober 26, 2021
I thank Congressman Cawthorn, and I am not surprised that he is a cosponsor of this bill. He very eloquently stated the need to think outside the box. People go for help, and there are some people who just always thought, Congressman Rutherford, that the answer is just to provide a medication. They weren't thinking outside the box. I remember people were showing up sick to PT. They would go to the infirmary complaining, and they were diagnosing Tylenol and codeine. You have a headache, Tylenol and codeine. You need knee surgery? Well, here is Tylenol and codeine. Whatever it was, it was just all over the base. It was the instinctive response. I think, for a while, the Department of Veterans Affairs thought that that was the only answer. We have a county sheriff who, in many ways, I look to him as the sheriff here in the House. He is also a cosponsor of H.R. 1476. He is someone who knows his purpose here in the House, a principled man, a fighter. His constituents are very lucky to have him in Florida's Fourth Congressional District. And he gets it. That is why he has been all in fighting for veterans every day that he has been here. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Rutherford).
