I know the gentleman from Michigan has a deep commitment to providing job training and employment assistance for our returning veterans, and I support the amendment, which highlights the importance of VA programs that provide this…

I understand the gentleman's focus on providing information technology resources for the VA in order to meet the goals of eliminating the backlog. I have no objection to the amendment.

Will the gentleman yield? Mr. LaMALFA. I yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania.

Section 512 has been included in the MILCON- VA bill for several years, and it is part of the overall policy discussion involving Guantanamo Bay. Identical language is also carried in the 2015 appropriations bill. Again, I respectfully…

I urge your support for this request and the many other critical policy provisions that are in the bill, as Israel and the United States face the challenges of the Middle East together.

At these times of global uncertainty and brutal acts of terrorism, it is imperative that we maintain persistent vigilance against the numerous threats facing our homeland. Again, I urge my colleagues to support this bill. It is the right…

Most small employers do not have a dedicated employee to track changes in statutes and regulations of--and the business owners end up doing this work after hours in terms of compliance.

Given the low cost of crude oil, which has translated into heating oil prices being on par with and sometimes lower than the equivalent natural gas price, why would HHS be using valuable LIHEAP program dollars to switch recipients' fuel…

And it seems like there is some type of discrimination based on type of fuel used, and I think there is a better way to allocate those LIHEAP dollars.

OSHA has admitted it has only been able to achieve about a 70 percent compliance rate with the existing silica standard.

I think that everybody who goes to work in morning ought to be entitled to know that they are coming home safe and sound.

I am deeply concerned about the community college program, because the free community college is, well, one, it is not based on need.

And contrary to OSHA's own analysis, independent estimates show that the agency's proposed rule to regulate worker exposure to crystalized silica is expected to cost the construction industry over $4 billion a year to comply with it.

Instead of penalizing job creators, the Department should instead try to help them.

These cease-fires will last as long as Vladimir Putin wants them to last.

But that is the complaint I heard in the field from our people out there, that there is money available, but we can simply not move it to where it could be most beneficially spent.

I just don't have a whole lot of confidence that the U.N. is going to be an effective partner with us at this point.

I would rather be able to give you more flexibility to move money where it is needed rather than trying to appropriate additional funds that may not be necessary in every case.

You think those snap-back sanctions will be effective without our international partners?

I believe the West has been humiliated.

I have serious concerns about the State Department's decision to reduce by half the funding for the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program.

I thank the gentleman from Washington State for yielding to me, and I thank him for his very distinguished career in law enforcement for all of those 30-plus years. He had a great reputation, served honorably, and was involved in some very…

Woman, I rise today in strong support of H.R. 240, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, which Judge Carter, Mr. Price, myself, and others helped draft in the Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Homeland Security…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise today to express my thoughts and, frankly, some concerns about the President's proposal that we will vote on today to train and arm the Free Syrian Army forces to fight ISIL. We are…

I, too, rise today in strong support of H.R. 4080, the Trauma Systems and Regionalization of Emergency Care Reauthorization Act. I would especially like to thank Dr. Burgess of Texas and Representative Gene Green of Texas for introducing…