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It was not big enough, apparently.

If there is a consensus here on anything, it is that we need comprehensive tax reform, and we need it now.

The manipulation of appointment schedules and data in Phoenix led to at least 40 veterans dying while they were waiting for care.

The VA Scheduling Accountability Act would simply require each facility's director to annually certify compliance with a scheduling directive.

I introduced legislation this week, the VA Scheduling Accountability Act, that gets at one of the key drivers of the wait-time manipulation.

Here we sit 2 years later, digging deeper into some of the root causes to ensure that no veteran ever dies again waiting for care.

In 2014, news reports uncovering gross mismanagement and schedule manipulation at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Phoenix shook us all to the core.

We have a rule with some kind of proceeding, sounds like a kangaroo court, based on untruths, half-truths, lack of transparency, facts that were not allowed to come into evidence, and testimony that was literally cut off.

The H-2A process, which is for legal labor, is broken.

The overwhelming regulatory stuff that is coming out, particularly from the EPA.

Agriculture is bipartisan, and we have to figure a way to work together.

Our ability to provide life enhancing educational opportunities hinges on our Federal, state, and local partnerships.

There are two kinds of conservation going on in America: the hopefuls and the hatefuls. And we have to find a way to empower the hopefuls.

And, frankly, when I ask my members of the Family Farm Alliance, or my neighbors that don't use it, they just feel like the system is just so disjointed from their lives and so much paperwork.

The fastest growing category of farmers in America is 70 and above.

The answers are going to be done at the local level.

I thank you for your support of USDA, NIFA, the land-grant university system, and Cooperative Extension.

Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today.