Rubén Hinojosa: “I know that this is the time in our country where legislators are cutting back on their investment in higher education…”

But let us not say that $1 billion increase as was pointed out by Ms. Bauscher is too much because I was voting to approve for many, many years, 12, 13 years, spending $10 to $12 billion a month in our war in Iraq and Afghanistan. So $1…

I am encouraged that we are doing some things right and helping a lot of people who under the conditions that our ranking member, Bobby Scott, gave that could not afford it or had preexisting medical conditions, are now covered.

I was unable to be present in the House Chamber for certain rollcall votes this week. Had I been present on May 24, 2016, for the first vote series, I would have voted ``aye'' for rollcall 235 and ``nay'' on rollcalls 231, 232, 233 and…

However, due to their financial trouble in recent years, we have seen attempts to not just reform them, but wind them down completely, and I don't agree with that.