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ROSEBURG VA HOME

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Thursday, May 14, 2026

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Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 82 (Thursday, May 14, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 82 (Thursday, May 14, 2026)] [House] [Pages H3466-H3467] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] ROSEBURG VA HOME (Ms. Hoyle of Oregon was recognized to address the House for 5 minutes.) Ms. HOYLE of Oregon. Mr. Speaker, in March, I testified in front of the Appropriations Committee in support of the $600 million appropriations funding request for the Veterans State Home Grant. This is a program that funds the Roseburg State Veterans' Home. The Appropriations Committee came back with $171 million request instead. That is a $104 million cut from the 2026 enacted amount and an insult to those who served our country and who have earn…

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Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 82 (Thursday, May 14, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 82 (Thursday, May 14, 2026)] [House] [Pages H3466-H3467] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] ROSEBURG VA HOME (Ms. Hoyle of Oregon was recognized to address the House for 5 minutes.) Ms. HOYLE of Oregon. Mr. Speaker, in March, I testified in front of the Appropriations Committee in support of the $600 million appropriations funding request for the Veterans State Home Grant. This is a program that funds the Roseburg State Veterans' Home. The Appropriations Committee came back with $171 million request instead. That is a $104 million cut from the 2026 enacted amount and an insult to those who served our country and who have earned the right to live out the rest of their lives in dignity. There is a huge backlog of projects that need funding from the VA State Home Grant, including the Roseburg State Veterans' Home, totaling over $1 billion--$1 billion. That is less than we spend in day on the war in Iran. Veterans in my district have been advocating for this home since 2011. Oregon has done its part. The State first set aside matching funds for this project in 2011 when Representative Cliff Bentz and I served in the State legislature and again in 2024. Unfortunately, the Federal Government has not held up its end of the bargain, and the need is clear. My district is home to more veterans than any other district in Oregon, and many live in rural communities with limited access to long-term care options. The Roseburg State Veterans' Home would house more than 150 veterans and be a model for community-based care. Our veterans have waited long enough to receive the care they deserve. The Federal Government needs to step up and ensure these projects, like the Roseburg State Veterans' Home, can finally move forward. This isn't just about Roseburg, Oregon, but throughout this country we should all be united in ensuring our veterans, who put their lives on the line to protect and serve our country, get the benefits that they earned and deserve. The Right Thing to Do Ms. HOYLE of Oregon. Mr. Speaker, first and foremost, I want to congratulate the Eugene Emergency Physicians for their hard-fought and won contract with PeaceHealth, the only level 2 trauma hospital between Corvallis, Oregon, and Crescent City, California. Now, for those who don't know, the PeaceHealth hospital leadership decided to replace our local emergency physician group, 41 medical professionals who live in our community and who have served our emergency medical needs with distinction for 35 years, with a management-run, venture capital-funded medical group out of Georgia. Fortunately, Oregon passed a law restricting corporate ownership and the Corporate Practice of Medicine law that restricts MSOs from owning, controlling, or directing medical decisionmaking for professional medical entities. It prevents MSOs from using a friendly physician amendment to circumvent ownership laws, and it voids noncompete, nondisclosure, and nondisparagement for medical professionals. Now, if this law were not in place, then our community would have been left a lot less safe and less able to respond to a natural disaster or large emergency medical need before the July 4 weekend, which is traditionally the highest E.R. usage period in the year, and before what everyone agrees will be a devastating wildfire season. We won this battle in Oregon. However, there is no national law that prohibits the corporate ownership and [[Page H3467]] practice of medicine where the highest priority is profits to the shareholders instead of providing quality, affordable, and appropriate healthcare. We can and should fix that, and it shouldn't be partisan. We should all agree that large insurance companies, hedge funds, and venture capital firms should not be able to buy up healthcare systems, driving up costs while limiting service to everyone but their shareholders. That is why I have introduced the people over profits bill to prevent squeezing every bit of profit out of a medical care system at the expense of our constituents when they are at their most vulnerable. We need this law so we can have more wins like the one I am so proud Eugene Emergency Physicians won last week. We need that all across this great country. It is the right thing to do, and I hope my colleagues will join me in supporting this very, very important legislation. ____________________

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