The measure before the committee today will help make it easier to provide a headstone or marker for veterans who currently do not have a headstone.
Steve Stivers
The Public Record
Those who served in our military deserve our full support, especially those who gave their last full measure of devotion for this great Nation.
I would ask this committee to take this bill to markup and move this bill forward.
That regulatory barrier of obtaining approval for next of kin creates an especially high barrier on veterans from much older conflicts.
President Abraham Lincoln, in his second inaugural address, called for the country to care for those who shall have borne the battle and for the widow and orphan.
This legislation provides a way for the American people to honor our veterans as we move past more than a decade of war.
The measure before the committee today will make it easier to provide headstones or markers for veterans who currently do not have a headstone and lay in an unmarked grave.
Those who served in the military deserve our full-support, especially those who gave the final measure of devotion to our great nation.
This bill, H.R. 2018, the Honor Those Who Served Act, introduced by Representative Steve Stivers (R-OH-15)...
I think that is really the heart of where I think we need to go, because several of you made this point very, very well about how overlapping and conflicting regulation could really hurt our competitiveness.
Do you think the system would be better off--I certainly don't think anybody wants to kick anybody out of their homes...





