I have heard today from my colleagues on the other side of the aisle about the Cadillac tax. It needs to go.

Just because you have a health insurance plan doesn't mean you can get health care coverage.

In my opinion, the House version was the Affordable Care Act was a much better bill than what the Senate passed.

We need to stop this sky-is-falling narrative. Since the Affordable Care Act was enacted, 12 million private sector jobs have been created.

The Affordable Care Act is working. Today, the percentage of uninsured Americans is the lowest in 50 years.

It really is about access to health care.

If you put a $3,000 or $4,000 or $5,000 deductible for someone who makes $26,000 or $32,000 a year, it might as well be $100,000.

I think it will help other people, Mr. Chairman, around the country to have the courage to stick their head up instead of keeping their head down and letting things go by that shouldn't.

It is ridiculous that VA is paying employees to sit at home for almost a year in some cases at the taxpayers' expense.

So I fully encourage my colleagues to join Representative Rice and my fellow cosponsors on this commonsense legislation that will further the committee's goal of ensuring that our veterans have every opportunity to be gainfully employed…

Good workers want to work in good agencies with other hard-working employees and want to know that bad actors will be held fully accountable.

At the end of the day, that is the job of this committee; our primary mission is to support our veterans.