When you say inactivated, it just sounds so Nixonian.

the conditions were so appalling that the Office of Inspector General took the highly unusual step of issuing an interim report

Men and women who put on the uniform to protect our country had every reason to believe they would receive the highest quality healthcare as a statement of our commitment to them.

This is hardly an issue limited only to this facility or this region, no question about it.

H.R. is kind of key to an enterprise.

I mean my experience, frankly, is that physicians are all too ready to prescribe opioids, and look at you kind of funny as a patient if you object.

I think there's a burden on physicians as well.

I support this, Mr. Chairman.

we still have two-thirds of the rehab centers in this country saying otherwise, saying 'no drugs here at all.'

Which is why I support this, Mr. Chairman.

the death rates from and the risk of overdose--relapse and overdose from now Fentanyl is upwards 20 times higher in people who are coming out of settings like the residential treatment facilities.

I think the walls are collapsing on Mr. Trump, and I think he's helping the process, ironically, with comments like he made today. So I think there's almost an inexorable move toward impeachment.

I interpret the law quite differently than you do.

QFR: from Chairman Connolly.

Persistent vacancies in the top position in the FLRA's Office of General Counsel have also allowed a backlog of more than 200 documented violations of Federal labor law to go unaddressed or unresolved.

The statutory protection of the right of employees to organize, bargain collectively, and participant through labor organizations of their own choosing in decisions which affect them safeguards the public interests.

I took the same oath you did.

This single act reveals, I think, a personal and disqualifying anti-union bias.

Much like the President who appointed this Chairman, the FLRA Chairman has exhibited unprecedented anti-union bias.

As a manager, Chairman Kiko has earned a failing grade from the employees of the Authority itself.

And, obviously, many of us pretty strongly disagree with your interpretation. In fact, we argue it's unique, misguided, and certainly misinterprets the law.

A Federal judge struck down key provisions of those executive orders, finding that they were, quote, 'an improper exercise of the President's statutory authority.'

You disagree with that legal opinion?

The Trump administration has made no attempt to disguise its hostility toward collective bargaining, unions, and Federal service labor laws.

The Census is about money and power.