I really have to say I don't understand why it would take so long to implement this particular change that simply serves to protect our veterans and their identities.

We need to fund the VA Inspector General at a level that aligns with their oversight responsibility and the growth of the VA's own budget and new initiatives.

One of the highlights that I saw in the VA budget request was that the Administration once again requested full funding for the Jason Simcakoski Memorial and Promise Act.

I will be requesting additional data for the Madison and Milwaukee VA Medical Centers and also some national data by year.

today I wish to honor Vel Phillips, who was born Velvalea Hortense Rodgers in 1923 in Milwaukee and passed away on April 17, 2018, at the age of 95. Vel was a civil rights leader and a pioneer in social justice and fair housing who left an…

I think of it as a state with three coasts, three freshwater coasts, the East Coast of Lake Michigan, the North Coast of Lake Superior, and the West Coast of the St. Croix River, and the Mighty Mississippi River.

I certainly agree that we don't know nearly enough, but I think it calls for much greater funding for this basic research.

Climate change poses growing threats to my home state of Wisconsin and we know that Great Lakes Region also and, frankly, the world.

Absolutely, absolutely. So I want to greet our distinguished witnesses today and thank you for coming to testify before our Subcommittee.

We need to look at renewable energy sources so we can get away from these dams.

The problem, as multiple courts have found over many years, is that the National Marine Fisheries Service hasn't done an adequate job under the Endangered Species Act in consulting under that statute.

the funding is spotty to non-existent.