I think we ought to make it statutory so that it does not vary from state to state to state

Just as our veterans helped to ensure the safety of Americans during their active service, the United States should do no less for them now.

My bill would transfer 64.5 acres of land at 2400 Hospital Road back to Tuskegee University so that the land can better serve the community.

It is a policy, not a requirement. It is a policy. I think this is an omission governing our veterans' homeless program funds.

Five people were killed in a Texas shelter.

Quite frankly, Mr. Chairman, I am more interested in the veterans than I am about bureaucracy.

There is no current law mandating VA homeless shelters meet code.

I believe HR 1702 is critical to the care of veterans in my Southern Arizona district and across this nation.

Weren't you told it was going to decrease insurance costs?

I take it very personally when someone says we potentially could ban the exporting of coal and/or natural gas.

I think you ought to take a look at that and become more aggressive.

When you said on page three that 'we should keep our coal in the ground where it belongs.' Did you really mean that?

You are entitled to have that opinion about climate change. I am willing to acknowledge that there is climate change going on.

this is a fight about coal. The war on coal continues here in Washington.

I think consensus has a place in politics but consensus doesn't have a place in science.

I am just concerned with that, not only the direction but also because I found that I am trying to reconcile the information that your office up here only had provided from your predecessor.

What are your goals for the growth of nuclear energy overall and how do you believe the budget put forward by your agency can successfully accomplish all of those goals?

I believe that our national labs such as Argonne National Lab in my home State of Illinois can play a key role in devising an enhanced nuclear energy security strategy.

I would like to thank Congress and Congressmen David McKinley and Peter Welch for their leadership on homes, home performance and for introducing H.R. 2128, the Home Owner Managing Energy Savings Act, or HOMES Act.

The American dream for millions of Americans is embodied in the idea of owning their own home.

I really don't want to get a point that we tell middle-class America they are not entitled to a new home.

Recently, Representatives McKinley and Welch, both members of this subcommittee, introduced the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act, H.R. 1616.

How are we going to get affordable housing for middle-class Americans and low-paid people across this country?

I guess as an engineer, I always like the metrics. I want to see how the metrics work.

Given all the discussion here in Washington lately about lists, who is going to be maintaining that list?