Will this be limited only to Iraq and Afghanistan?

But you--this is beyond note taking. This is what we're looking at here.

I just find this--that we had to push to get a death benefit raised from $12,000 to $100,000.

We don't want more bureaucracy. We've had a dismal experience with the drug czar concept.

I think you're onto something here, and happy to be a co-sponsor.

I hope that it will be the first step of many, but you've really responded to our call for not only reform, but for transformation.

If the president's new mantle and measurement for dialogue is to only talk and to only meet with those individuals or organizations that agree with him, then we are getting closer to the previous regime in Baghdad than we are to a…

Well, this has been a wonderful hearing, Senator Bond. Thank you for providing the leadership for us to organize it.

I want to thank everyone for being here today to discuss this critical issue.

Alzheimer's disease affects millions of Americans and their families, and we must find solutions.

Well, I'm going to----

Yes, we had a April 22 deadline.

I support the direction that you're going in.

We have worked on a bipartisan basis to increase VA funding every single year, and we need to continue to do that.

No. 1, the promises we made to our veterans need to be promises kept, while also making the best use of the taxpayers' dollars.

We won't call them 'predators', we'll call them 'weasels.'

We don't want to have government-subsidized slums.

Well, you know where I am, because we have all this distressed housing, and we have more work to be done.