You got to basically go after people and make them understand what they have to do, and that means you create a war room, you go after votes, you have to push people.

The president very clearly should have said you have crossed that red line, we're not going to allow that to happen.

What I'm saying is that Maliki was the kind of leader that you had to constantly put pressure on to direct him in the right direction.

I do think that if we had had a presence there, it might not have created the kind of vacuum that we saw develop in Iraq.

He's made decision to put troops on the ground in Iraq to try to help the security forces, he's made the decision to arm and train rebel forces in Syria, and he's made the decision to conduct air attacks.

I share some of your frustration because most of the veterans in the valley live in Las Vegas, that is where the population is, and yet the regional office is 8 hours away in Reno.

You really don't believe it is getting any better?

Why don't you just put the appeal form in the original letter when you send it out, and that takes away that 60-day problem in the beginning? That is just commonsense.

I thought we were supposed to help veterans, so it upsets me when I am given an answer like that.

Delay is denial. One day of a delay is denial.

It is a dereliction of duty on the part of the President that he has not made this phone call.

His imprisonment is unjust, and the length of his detention is a national disgrace.

I apologize for the inappropriate level of concern by the White House. I am truly disappointed in that.

In 2011, when Afghanistan was raging, you had nine times more likely of a chance to be killed in Mexico than to be killed in Afghanistan.

Mexico stole Andrew's chance at a quick recovery.

Frankly, I am tired of the lip service, of the thanks for your service, while I watch the President give speeches...

He has earned this attention here today. He has earned this Congress coming together and this committee holding this.

This is much worse than Afghanistan.