Is there a public education role here?

Given such success, I hope the VA and this Committee will strongly consider ways to expand this program's reach so more communities can benefit as Rapid City has.

I was proud to work in a bipartisan manner in the Economic Opportunity Subcommittee on Rep. John Boozman's Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program Reauthorization Act of 2009.

Mr. Chairman, I would like to thank you and my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for supporting this important measure.

I thank Dr. Boozman, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity, for introducing H.R. 1171, the HVRP Reauthorization Act.

I agree with President Obama, who said in March that until we reach a day when not a single veteran sleeps on the street, our business on this issue is unfinished.

My caseworkers in South Dakota report that the homeless Veterans they have worked with are very distrustful of the VA and generally unwilling to go there for assistance.

I am also especially pleased that H.R. 1171 includes the text of H.R. 293, the Homeless Women Veterans and Homeless Veterans with Children Reintegration Grant Act, which I introduced to reverse the increased trend in homeless women…

I would implore you and the Secretary and the President to weed into the debate on biomass...

I strongly believe that forests must be fully recognized in any energy and climate change legislation for the essential role they play in reducing carbon emissions and in generating renewable energy.

I would like to thank all of our men and women in uniform who are currently serving in our Armed Forces, the veterans who have answered our Nation's call to duty, and particularly thank the families who have lost a loved one while in…