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It's hard to believe that the year is coming to an end, and in just a few weeks, we'll be celebrating the start of a new one. We're right in the middle of resolution season, and I've been thinking a lot about mine. Those of us who have broken resolutions before—and with my wife Kathryn's delicious cooking, I've broken a few—know that change is impossible without action. I've heard it said that faith plus action equals success. We can't daydream our way into change. It takes effort.
Washington, DC – With the clock ticking on the federal government's fiscal calendar, Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA) and Congressman Rob Wittman (R-VA) are preparing legislation to protect federal employees from a government shutdown. The Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act would guarantee back pay for all furloughed workers in the event of a shutdown.
"Are they dead that speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act?"
Sebastian Junger, a journalist and documentary film-maker who spent a year in Afghanistan embedded with a platoon in the Korengal Valley (once considered the deadliest valley in the country) made an important observation about war. He said that "the core reality of war isn't that you might get killed out there, it's that you're guaranteed to lose your brothers."
WASHINGTON – Congressman Rob Wittman (VA-01) issued the following statement today after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the conference report for H.R. 22, the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, by a vote of 359-65:
The November terrorist attacks in Paris have led to some critical self-reflection here in the United States. In the aftermath of the slaughter that left at least 130 dead (the body count continues to rise) and some 100s more injured, Americans have linked arm-in-arm with our oldest ally—mourning the dead, pledging increased military support and redoubling our collective resistance to fear as a way of life.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Rob Wittman (R-VA-1) announced today that he is taking a number of legislative and other steps to minimize the threat that terrorist attacks like those in Paris could happen on U.S. soil.
In April of this year, Wittman introduced the International Conflicts of Concern Act (H.R. 1929), a bill to protect the United States by establishing a framework to temporarily restrict the travel of U.S. citizens to countries of conflict where they may radicalize and then return home to carry out an attack.
WASHINGTON – Rob Wittman (VA-01) issued the following statement today in response to President Obama's decision not to approve the Keystone XL pipeline:
WASHINGTON – Virginia's congressional delegation is urging President Obama to support funding to expand the Port of Virginia. In a bipartisan letter signed by U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) and U.S. Reps.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Rob Wittman (R-VA-01), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee's Subcommittee on Readiness, introduced the Accountability, Collaboration, and Transfer (ACT) Now for Veterans legislation, which includes measures to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) benefits claim process and expedite Veteran access to quality care.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Rob Wittman (VA-01) supported passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2016. The annual legislation, which the House of Representatives approved by a bipartisan vote of 370-58, provides policy guidance and authorization for the Department of Defense.