This is about the veteran in need of care.

Leadership as a character quality has nothing to do with orthopedic surgeons, podiatric surgeons, or any other training.

I thank all of you. I am going to now yield myself time for questions and comment.

I appreciate you all taking time out of your morning to be here with us and for sponsoring legislation to help our veterans.

As a doctor and as a veteran I feel strongly that we cannot continue to allow a practice as toxic and damaging as smoking to continue taking place on VA medical facility campuses.

I think that highlights to me the importance of bringing people in from outside the VA.

And I agree, Mr. Celli, competition drives excellence.

I want to thank you all very much for your testimonies here today. It is greatly appreciated.

I am proud of last week's effort and convinced that if enacted H.R. 1367 will lead to improvements nationwide.

I hope our colleagues in our upper chamber will take note of the testimony discussed during today's hearing and act swiftly to get this much needed bipartisan legislation to the President's desk.

Military itself is not the answer, and diplomacy is key.

We need to really define, I believe, what our strategy is and what our principles are and then work in the right direction.

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, this 5- minute vote on passage of the bill will be followed by a 5-minute vote on agreeing to the Speaker's…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 8, line 8, strike ``90 days'' and insert ``one year''. Page 12, line 12, strike ``shall'' and insert…

My manager's amendment makes a number of minor technical changes to the reported version of the bill and would significantly reduce discretionary costs while maintaining the overall intent of the bill. The biggest change that would be made…

Mr, Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of Representative Meng's amendment, which would stipulate that the annual determination of Veterans Health Administration staffing shortages must include…

Once again, I encourage all Members to support H.R. 1367, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I would just like to take a second here to thank the ranking member for his hard work and putting forth many of the ideas that are in this bill and working with us, and thank him for his service to our country in the military and the high…

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President Trump has repeatedly expressed his support for rebuilding our military.

I am concerned that the 2018 defense budget previewed by the White House... is not sufficient to fully resource the bold agenda to rebuild our military.

I appear before you today in strong support of a robust defense budget for fiscal year 2018.

I appreciate what you're saying, Mr. Cox, from the standpoint as a caregiver, you want an environment that can work...

I got here 4 years ago, and this was before the situation at Phoenix broke...

I appreciate that, and I thank you for yielding and thank you for taking the charge on this this evening to share this message. Mr. Speaker, first, do no harm. Do no harm. These are three short words, but, to physicians, they represent a…