Bill Johnson

The rationale for the legislation's first right of refusal provision is that the non-Federal operator knows the details of the facility, and is locally invested in the project.

Our nation desperately needs affordable electricity, it desperately needs permanent jobs but to get them, it most of all desperately needs commonsense restored to its government.

This simple and commonsense solution means vast quantities of hydroelectricity--without a single new dam and at a cost to the government of precisely nothing.

It is truly mystifying that a nation suffering a prolonged recession and plagued with increasingly scarce and expensive electricity would adopt a willful and deliberate policy of obstructing construction...

I want to commend our sub-committee members Scott Tipton and Paul Gosar who are spearheading the effort to clear away these bureaucratic obstacles...

One of the primary effects of these changes would be a reduction in claims processing time by approximately 40 days.

These bills we are discussing today are the result of months of input, work, research, and investigation.

This is not rocket science, and I am frustrated and disheartened that we have reached a point where we need this legislation.

It is important that this Committee and the Congress revisit laws to ensure that they still achieve their original intent.

The 'Modernizing Notice to Claimants Act' would allow for the most efficient delivery for any notice, including electronic written responses.

ROA and REA request support of H.R. 2329, introduced by Rep. Bill Johnson (R, Ohio), which would amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.

SCRA Transparency for Financial Institutions

I am proud to work with this Congress to ensure the entire country has the backs of America's servicemembers and veterans.

Throughout those 10 years, my single most important duty was to take care of other soldiers.

Okay. How does the Department of Education pay title 4 funding? Is there anything we can learn from them to make the GI Bill process simpler for students and schools and the VA?

In other words, you would get a jumpstart on the administrative process of getting the veteran enrolled?

You mentioned a two-step process at Saint Leo that would be a better solution than the one that exists currently.

H.R. 2329, the Ensuring a Response for Servicemembers Act, introduced by Representative Bill Johnson, which would amend SCRA to provide financial protection for servicemembers.

It is not only in our Nation's best interest, but it is our responsibility to ensure that our troops will be able to continue to protect and defend our Nation without fear of financial difficulties stemming from their service.

I can assure you that I am going to continue to look for the answers to find out how we rectify this and bring justice to the Delphi retirees.

Some people took their own lives because a business was taken from them by a procedure that had absolutely nothing to do with natural events.

It is just difficult to sit here and listen to the premise that General Motors in its wisdom was able to eliminate private businessmen.

So the American people really do need to know that this was in fact as the President described, a historic structuring of a loan.

Did you not have a sense of responsibility to let the American people know that a corporation that had defaulted was playing a shell game with taxpayer dollars?

If it were up to me, those who refused to answer would be found in contempt of Congress.