CHARLES W. DENT

I don't like to use the term privatization. I would like to talk about the integration, a better integration I should say of the civilian and the veterans health systems that we have.

We're actually helping the President here by telling him not to fire Mueller.

We've seen this before, Anderson. Where the President's staff has said one thing and the President has then later contradicted them. And on Russian sanctions, that's the latest.

Firing Mueller would set up a political crisis the likes of which we haven't seen since Watergate.

I can't understand why the President would want to undermine it from within.

I guess what I guess is most troubling of all is that this rules-based order that the United States and our allies worked so hard to build after the Second World War and then doubled down after the end of the cold war is something I think…

The issue I've noticed with the Russians is that so many people in the administration, when it was Mattis, McMaster, and Tillerson, had a more traditional, conventional view towards Russia and recognized it as a threat, not a benign actor…

In the case of Nicaragua, we obviously call for the immediate release of political prisoners, an end to the violence.

We need your leadership, and the President's leadership, to say you want this to happen, because the nominations are going nowhere in the Senate.

I am very alarmed by the way the administration is proceeding on the issue of trade, launching against friend and foe alike on aluminum steel tariffs.

Oh, yes, absolutely. This midterm election in my view will be a referendum on the President of the United States and his conduct in office.

Not only is it important to protect against these attacks to prevent their direct negative impacts, but also I believe that addressing these concerns is crucial to securing the public's trust in these new technologies.

I recognize that 1 percent of our population protects the other 99 percent, and we owe a great deal to the veterans, no question about that.

Congress will be a less wise, less commonsense place with your departure.

Many of the veterans want to be served in the community where they live.

I appreciate the spirit and the bipartisan cooperation you have always demonstrated here.

No one wins in trade wars.

We all need to settle down here and quit reflexively attacking these institutions.

I think Senator's Graham and Durbin deserve a lot of credit for coming up with a pretty good bill in my view that could pass the Senate and the House right now.

My bigger concern right now, is that his remarks don't blow up the Dreamer DACA agreement that I think we can reach.

I do know he has made, you know, racially incendiary comments that are very unfortunate and make life difficult for a lot of us who were actually trying to get some things accomplished.

I just want to say for the Record that I appreciate the gentleman's concern for his district. I am not going to oppose the amendment, but I did want to say that, at some point, there will need to be a BRAC. There is a lot of excess…

I thank the gentleman for his genuine concern and thoughtfulness with respect to veterans' homelessness. It is indeed a very severe problem. I do look forward to working with him on this issue, but I also want to mention that I think our…

I have no further speakers on the amendments en bloc, and I yield back the balance of my time.

These amendments have been made in order by the rule allowing consideration of H.R. 3219, and their inclusion in the en bloc has been agreed to by both sides. I support the adoption of the en bloc package, and I reserve the balance of my…