Robert Wilkie: “You never put your uniform away. You have to get well to remind your countrymen every day that freedom is never free.”

While all Executive Branch departments and agencies must carry out their missions without consideration or influence of partisan politics, I have said in my visits across the department - visits that in the last five weeks cover ten VA…

I am humbled today not only by the confidence placed in me by the President of the United States and the support of our veterans service organizations.

If we believe in the concept of the total force, then it should be much easier for a servicemember to move amongst Guard, Active, and Reserve components.

I am opposed to the privatization of the Veterans Affairs Department and will continue to make sure that VHA is fully funded.