Sean Patrick Maloney: “Our responsibility to honor those who are willing to sacrifice everything does not end when they return home.”

And there must be accountability.

What Democrats are going to do right now is going to go out and fight with everything we've got for seniors who need costs capped in Medicare, for people worried about gun violence in our schools, for people who want to have a real plan to…

We must work in Congress to eliminate this insidious discrimination.

Our goal cannot just be to keep rural communities alive--we need to do the work to ensure that those communities are thriving and can succeed in a 21st century economy, and that's what I hope to get out of this hearing today.