Our veterans have earned the best care we can provide, the appointment scandal showed a disturbing disregard for health and safety of our heroes.

I believe in the fundamental consumer protections unequivocally in the ACA.

I believe you have an obligation to hold us accountable, to work on strategies that are going to protect those consumers.

I've seen nothing that's been targeted or strategic for those States, and I've seen very little, quite frankly, from the administration about dealing with these issues.

I worry that some of what we did today could be, frankly, interpreted as violating that very standard.

I don't think there's any member in this committee or, quite frankly, any Member in Congress who doesn't both want and expect that the FBI and the Department of Justice to be and to operate in a fair, unbiased, highly independent manner.

Our responsibility is better served making sure that we do have, in fact, an independent body whose aim it is to bring about truth and justice.

This issue of how we fund our forests and our management of our forests is critical to communities across the West.

We cannot wait any longer to get large-scale forest health projects implemented in New Mexico, and for that matter, across the West.

We have got to figure this out because we have projects all over in forests across New Mexico where the community has come to a generalized consensus about what needs to be done.

Last week we lost 24 homes and 21 other structures when that fire raced out of the mountains and into a subdivision.

I believe that these problems are clearly being caused by the way the State is administering the program...

the most egregious issue here is that I have vulnerable families that aren't getting the support that they deserve.

I have very deep concerns about the integrity of the SNAP program in my State in New Mexico.

SNAP I think is one of the most important policies and programs in this country

Thank you for your service to this country and for your interest in the work of this Committee.

I can manage my troops. I can follow orders and directions that are complex, that are critical issue moments in my career and in my life. But I cannot successfully deal with the burden, and neither can any of the business folks involved in…

we are having conversations about what-ifs but we are not talking to the folks--with no disrespect to the panel members--about really who is enforcing, who is accountable