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The Choice Program was not working for veterans the way that it should, and you were instrumental, Senator Moran, in pointing that out to us all along.

The ultimate judge of our success will be our Veterans.

I want to be clear that I am committed to strengthening the VA system and will not support efforts to privatize this much needed and essential system.

I want to give a deep thanks to Senator Rubio, who sponsored the accountability bill.

I want to publicly commend Secretary Shulkin on having the fortitude to do that, pulling that trigger, so to speak, and pledge my support to help in every way possible to see the transition is smooth and works.

The fact that David Shulkin was confirmed 100 to nothing; the first Presidential appointee that was voted in unanimously.

We have to be as open minded on making Choice work in the future as we have been on finally getting accountability done yesterday.

We are going to have a program that is either going to be out of money, out of gas, or out of both.

We are implementing this program wrong.

Thank you for helping us enact the Veterans Choice Program Improvement Act.

We have to look at the 40-mile rule and the 30-day rule and make them better rules for the veteran.

We kept the veterans foremost in our minds, not ourselves as politicians or the press or somebody who wanted to play games.

We are looking for that type of relationship with you.

The Senate sent a pretty clear message to veterans that veterans are your priority.

Accountability had its pitfalls and had its potholes, but it was doable, and we proved it was doable.

The VA has recently taken several positive steps to care for veterans struggling with mental health issues.

I suffer from PTSD. This camp has done more for me than any counseling or medication.

Here I am sharing things with people who know what I am talking about. In civilian life, they want to say, 'I know how you feel.' But they really don't. Here, they know how you feel. It's been fabulous.