The Department of Veterans Affairs has one of the most important missions in our government.
I commend the Department for the decision on the Agent Orange diseases, and I think that is the right thing to do.
I think I am going to focus on Guam because that is clearly, I think, the most current issue that we have.
I will look forward to having you come to us with your suggestions, and then we certainly will be helpful.
The VA's 2011 budget request proposes an $11.4 billion increase above last year's level.
I think that the increase in the budget proposed, $5.2 billion for mental health treatment, is an increase from last yea...
The President has said he wants to close Guantanamo, and I certainly support that decision.
I think the question has to do with the additional expansion to the infrastructure that the military buildup would requi...
We have got to start looking at the money that we are spending overseas and is it better to have permanent bases in Amer...
We do need to get out of the base in Seoul and move south, and that is in our interest as well as Korea's.
Are you looking at alternatives at all that would be more efficient than this entire move to Guam?
I want to say that I am pleased that we are close to finishing the BRAC commitments that we have made, and one thing tha...
I question the basis of this.
I believe we are making some progress, but it is slower and harder than we anticipated.
health care is eating the Department alive.
I think moderates look at those people, and they are repulsed. And I think then the base looks at the fact that they los...
Not even close. They would have lost the House if they had failed here.
The important thing is the big bill has passed. The president will sign it. That's the house. The house has been built, ...
