Derrick Van Orden: “I think it is inappropriate. We are trying to get whole food, or whole milk back into schools.”

I thank the chairman for yielding me time. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of my legislation, the Veterans Education Transparency and Training Act, or the VETT Act. This bill addresses critical barriers that veterans currently face with…

as chairman of the Economic Opportunity Subcommittee, it has been a great privilege to get important bills like H.R. 913, the SAFE Veterans Act of 2025, and H.R. 1793, the Veterans Readiness and Employment Transparency Act of 2025, over…

I'm not going to put up with these agitators. We're not doing it. Republicans are too nice.

I remind my Democrat colleagues that I was raised in abject, rural poverty by a single mother on food stamps when you had a stamp that you stuck on a card. I had subsidized government lunches and government cheese. We do have to know that…