These problems must be addressed by both agencies.

The VA has taken some very strong steps toward the goal of building a 21st century support system, but gaps in the system remain.

I appreciate your comments regarding the Veterans' Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitative Services' Improvements Act of 2011 and hope that we can work together to make this legislation serve our veterans in the best way possible.

We can do better, and we must do more.

You can pretty well fight international terrorism without remaking an entire societal structure. Wouldn't you agree?

If there is any nation in the world that needs nation-building right now, it's the United States of America.

I think my major concern is how we define our strategic objectives in Afghanistan and how that matches up with what we are able to actually accomplish in a cost-benefit way.

International terrorism and guerilla warfare in general is intrinsically mobile.

I think he should resign.

If he's now going to be opining on each unfaithful or cyber-unfaithful husband, he ought to have to take a position now on whether David Vitter, the senator from Louisiana, who ran on family values and then got caught on the D.C. madam's…

We have to roll back some of these regulations that are killing jobs, and it really does not matter to me who gets the credit as long as we get the job done.

I really wish we could quantify... because we all want clean water and we all want clean air and we all want jobs.

I want to protest that publicly.

I am going to be talking to the White House and to the administration government relations officials...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Let me just say again, sadly, you're both being used, in violation of House rule 11 clause 2(j)(1)...

the minority has rights. And if the majority wishes to actually join on this issue...

It is not true, as a matter of fact, that domestic oil production in the Obama administration is actually higher than that of the Bush administration?