after decades of service to our nation's youth, dr. schultz retired earlier this year. my congratulations on an incredible career and best wishes fors future pursuits. mr. speaker, i rise today to recognize the life of a man who's ann delible impact on conservation and preservation throughout arkansas, tom. tom is retiring at the end of this month after s as the arkansas national heritage commission's senior echologist for over two decades. tom dedicated his life to answering the call to serve the outdoors. from publishing the natural divisions of arkansas to getting numerous educational progms for schools and the general public, he lived his life to serve our natural state. in 1976, he became the director of arkansas ecology center, the organization he had volunteered for as a youth. t's service to the s of arkansas and to the environmental conservation area will never be forgotten, and i join all arkansans in congratulating my friend, tom, on a remarkable career and a well-deserved retirement. mr. speaker, i rise today to recognize mount vernon high school cybersecuri

in 2007 he began volunteering with the national park service at rosie the riveter, editing exhibits, conducting research and developing interactive youth rograms. he wasal a ranger at the port chicago naval magazine national memorial where he assisted with outreach programs at local schools an gave tours of the site including myself and our staff. laettner he wasal a ranger his career, r hired permanently as the rosie the riveter as a park fwide where he was instrumental in opening the new visitor's center. he also supported the development of exhibit content and rosie the riveter films he dwooped wide variety of programs highlight manage untold average american stories that existed about the park and the service. rafael will be remembered for his service in the park and the mark he left on our community and our country, for ensuring its history was passed on to others. he will be sincerely missed. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection the gentlem

youth services. i'm a huge proponent on anything that involves rent subsidy pools. we are making up again for where the nation had failed us around housing. the federal government absolutely used to be both in the business of building housing and subsidizing housing for large numbers of americans. housing has never been affordable to every single american in this country. we simply cannot be given the cost of construction and management. it is a good that must be subsidized while the federal government has gone out of that business of building housing, and our section eight program, the city has been making up for where section eight has disappeared on that's. you will not get any better under the trump administration. we know subsidies work and we know that they keep families, youth, seniors, author of our streets and out of the shelter programs and out of situations of incredible insecurity and precariousness. anything that involves increasing or continuing the rent subsidy program, i think is an incredible investment of our public taxpayer dollars, and it is much more cost-effective in relation to actually

nation's veterans. and that number is expected to increase to 15% by the year 030. as more women veterans youth lite v.a. health care it is critical for the v.a. to update and improve services for women veterans. one area that warrant ours particular attention for improved services is v.a. mental health counseling services for women veterans. an alarming statistic from v.a.'s 2016 suicide data report noted that, quote, the risk of suicide was 2.4 times higher among female veterans when compared with their civilian adult -- when compared with civilian adult females and it also noted rates of suicide increased more among women than men in the same study. unfortunately, many women veterans have experienced sexual trauma and ptsd while serving in the military. some women veterans are suffering from other mental health conditions from multiple combat toufers duty and are at risk of suicide and becoming homeless. the peer-to-peer counseling act addresses these issues by requiring the secretary of the v.a. to ensure a sufficient number of volunteer peer support counselors are available to facilitate peer-to-peer counseling and assist women veterans with gender-specific care and se