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I find it really difficult to tell people who have submitted into the appeals process that they have 6 years to wait on average to get a response.

If the Senate votes to move the appeals modernization forward, as I think you are saying, Mr. Chairman, we will have a process to expedite those from the time that the law passes moving forward.

That is a nonstarter, and I hope we can get your commitment today to keep this important benefit in place.

To put forward a proposal that would, without warning, stop earned benefits payments to severely disabled vets is unacceptable.

The new policies proposed in this budget to pay for private care are simply untenable.

I have and always will trust the word and the integrity of Jim Comey.

I thought Jim Comey's testimony was riveting, compelling.

The assaults on the institutions starting with my own, the intelligence community and his characterization of us as Nazis.

There is a thin veneer there which can easily be jeopardized to the detriment of the country.

I think you compare the two that Watergate pales, really in my view, and compared to what we're confronting now.

Those who wrote this bill already seem to know that its constitutionality is in doubt.

The taxpayers may indeed need compensation, as they have gotten in every other country that has privatized.

Why shouldn't the Government of the United States be similarly compensated for these taxpayer assets?

I am saying I am not willing to put the veterans in the middle, and everybody at VA now knows they are to write those rules and get this fixed as soon as possible.

There will be no more delays in moving forward to pay those cases.

I will not delay a day to keep these veterans out of the middle.

At some point in the future, if you design a system right, giving veterans complete choice, I believe in principle is the direction we should be headed in but not in 2017.

This plan is to put the decisions back into the hands of the patient and the provider.