Eric Shinseki: “I am appalled that the House considered a bill that only partially funded the Department of Veterans Affairs...”

Your support of it is critical to providing veterans the care and benefits they have earned through their service and sacrifice.

Trust is an important aspect of everything we do here, and it has been in my previous life, as well.

I ask the Committee, and the rest of Congress, to help us by resolving this fiscal impasse now.

The President's vision reflected in these requests is about empowering veterans to help lead the rebuilding of the middle class.