We must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.
We must demand that the wealthy and large corporations pay their fair share in taxes.
It is not a radical idea to say that if you work 40 hours a week, you should not be living in poverty.
We have got to raise the minimum wage in this country to a living wage, which is $15 an hour.
I have been here 6 and a half years and we keep providing more and more and more and more money, and then we have the VA come back for more ...
There is no way on this Earth that the primary care is 4 days and that mental health is 3 days and the specialty care is 5 days.
I think of a billion dollars that was wasted in Aurora that could have provided VA veterans healthcare.
I don't understand why 60 percent of the money went to the bureaucracy and $200 million of it actually went to get veterans in to see me as ...
I think the Choice program, as I understand it, as we envisioned it, was to help get rid of the backlog.
I talked to several veterans, and I would be delighted to let you talk to one of the Veterans Service Officers in Hawkins County, Tennessee,...
I don't know where that information came from. It doesn't exist at our shop, I can tell you.
I am sorry I had to leave. I had to go to the House floor to testify on a VA bill.
I just had, not 6 weeks ago, one of the best friends I will ever have on this Earth, who was a Vietnam-era veteran, who died of a very rare ...
The new IT system--this is 2012. The new IT system is not scheduled to be operational until 2015, and it is still not operational.
According to the GAO, the VBA has not provided a plan or a timeline for implementing the new verification system.
Thank you all for advocating for veterans, what you do every day of your life.
I would encourage us to have the same thing for the baby, that the first six weeks of care--exactly like the mother.
I am really, I am not sure, as I said here before, that I can vote to let the VA build another major project.
