Veterans' Access to Child Care Act

Floor Speech

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Mr. BARR. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of my amendment to H.R. 840, the Veterans' Access to Child Care Act.

Let me just first say to my good friend, the ranking member of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, I appreciate the opportunity and the privilege and the responsibility to serve in this Congress on the House Veterans' Affairs Committee so we can continue to advocate for the veterans of the Sixth Congressional District of Kentucky and throughout the Nation.

This amendment would require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a study on the effects of childcare assistance provided in the underlying bill on access to healthcare services and compliance with treatment protocols. While I certainly support the underlying bill, this amendment is a commonsense measure that would improve the legislation.

We should always be willing to evaluate and assess whether or not the policies we enact are actually producing their intended result; and this amendment, by requiring the Secretary to conduct a study after 1 year of the effects of the childcare assistance on the actual access to the covered healthcare services and the requirement to report the findings of that study after 18 months to Congress, will ensure that the policies we implement are actually successful in increasing veterans' access to care.

I urge my colleagues to support this amendment.

Mr. Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. David P. Roe), the ranking member of the Veterans' Affairs Committee.

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Mr. BARR. Mr. Chair, I appreciate the chairman's kind words, and I appreciate the chairman's support of this amendment.

I yield back the balance of my time.

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