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Given such success, I hope the VA and this Committee will strongly consider ways to expand this program's reach so more communities can benefit as Rapid City has.

I was proud to work in a bipartisan manner in the Economic Opportunity Subcommittee on Rep. John Boozman's Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program Reauthorization Act of 2009.

I am also especially pleased that H.R. 1171 includes the text of H.R. 293, the Homeless Women Veterans and Homeless Veterans with Children Reintegration Grant Act, which I introduced to reverse the increased trend in homeless women…

I agree with President Obama, who said in March that until we reach a day when not a single veteran sleeps on the street, our business on this issue is unfinished.

My caseworkers in South Dakota report that the homeless Veterans they have worked with are very distrustful of the VA and generally unwilling to go there for assistance.

I think we need to understand the scope of the impact that that kind of a treaty could have on our defense and U.S.

The Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&E) program should be the 'crown jewel' of VA benefits.

I would like to thank all of our men and women in uniform who are currently serving in our Armed Forces, the veterans who have answered our Nation's call to duty, and particularly thank the families who have lost a loved one while in…

I can assure you that we will continue to work together in bipartisan manner to review current programs, to determine if they meet the needs of veterans and their dependents, while we continue to look for new opportunities to strengthen…

This is a team fight, and there have been a number of things, hopefully, policies, we have put in place that have improved just the way in which we deal with military families.

The airlines do have an issue that the Federal Government owns the production line of a major commercial industry and that's the airlines.

We need to get the FAA reauthorized. They are the principal agency responsible for managing air travel and ensuring that it's safe.

I've advocated airlines disclosing on their websites notifying consumers and fliers before they purchase airline tickets about whether the flight is chronically delayed or chronically canceled.

I think largely we lost our focus.

What is keeping that from happening? Is that just the will to do it? Is it a resource issue?

I do want to thank all our nominees for their willingness to serve.

I want to associate myself with the comments from the Senator from Indiana with regard to that issue. I absolutely agree with everything you said.

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