As long as I am in the Congress I will never vote to see the VA do a major project again.

It is embarrassing to me to go home and to look those folks in the eye who work as hard as they do and write the checks they do to see this big of a disaster, financial disaster.

Today is a significant day in America, it is April 15th, and a lot of hardworking taxpayers are sending checks off today.

I strongly urge the Committee and Congress to consider programmatic changes that ensure greater access to the PPP and EIDL programs.

I would like to encourage the SBA to allow lenders the discretion to offer loans to companies in Chapter 11.

Now, don't just ask me that. Go back and read the words of the people that founded this country and put together our Constitution.

Implementation and enforcement can be a good thing where government is working with businesses to help them get to a desired result or it can be a dagger in the heart.

But I am mindful of something Rahm Emanuel said when he was chief of staff to President Obama in 2009. He said you never let a serious crisis go to waste. I am afraid some of us are doing that here.

H.R. 2474, the PRO Act, is written to bail out the failing labor union business model that is being widely rejected by American workers.

My Democrat colleagues want to talk about protecting workers' rights while they simultaneously push radical legislation that will undermine the rights of workers.

Every time a life is lost to suicide, it is a tragedy.

When suicide occurs in a hospital, a place where the most vulnerable go for help, that loss feels particularly acute.

I want to give the VA a shout-out and there are some--obviously, we are going over some problems today that the VA had, but all in all I think the VA probably has the opportunity to be one of the best systems in the country.

the crisis of veteran suicide is not new, but our solutions must be, and that is why I introduced the Veterans' Acute Crisis Care for Emergent Suicide Symptoms Act, or Veterans' ACCESS Act, that will mandate VA cover the costs of emergency…

Suicide is a national tragedy. It is not just the VA; it is a national tragedy for us.

I think one of the most distressing statistics I heard during our roundtable in Tennessee was that the second-leading cause of death between the ages of 10 and 34 is suicide.

The members here have heard me say this many times, in the Guard in Tennessee we have a program called Guard Your Buddy, which has been shown to reduce suicide by almost 70 percent.

I think educating the public about this is extremely important and then being prepared for this, if it does.

I believe we have to really get back and reconstitute our mental health infrastructure in this country.

I want to congratulate this entire committee. Every one of you finished in exactly 5 minutes, so congratulations.

I want to get this on the record thanking you for advocating breastfeeding and I think that is a huge thing that you have done.

I want to thank you for having this. I think we should continue this, because this is a travesty in the United States to have these kinds of mortality rates.

Why don't we take a public health approach?

The truth is that President Obama, and following the law, deported almost 3 million people.