Robert A. McDonald: “VA is not only essential for veterans, it is essential for American medicine and it is essential for the American…”

To turn VA around, we must maintain our momentum of change, and we cannot do that without cooperation of Congress.

Thank you, Chairman Miller. I look forward to working with you and the rest of the committee to improve the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide the kind of care that our veterans deserve.

We have to hold people accountable or you are not going to change the culture.

The President, our Commander in Chief, asked me to serve. I want to do well by my country and I accepted that challenge.