When VA Police Officer Greg Crenshaw arrived, Greg persuaded the veteran to take him as the hostage to protect Kathy.
I did not come to VA to do the easy thing, I came here to do the right thing.
I realize that brevity is the coin of the realm. I will have very little to say. I will let these nominees speak for the...
As for Carol Waller Pope, this is the fourth time I have been before you for her. That says everything about, I think, h...
How about treatment?
Has the experience that the ranking member spoken about educated you at all about treatment?
I really felt I had to ask you a question on synthetic drugs.
These synthetic drugs present a new challenge.
If we concede that, then looking into what we can really do would make sense.
You do need new legislation to be able to do effective law enforcement?
I appreciate, Mr. Kelley, with your law enforcement background, acknowledging that we cannot arrest our way out of this ...
I think that 5 percent limit does not make sense, especially in light of a lot of changes in the demand for opiates and ...
The $421 million that we are requesting... would be to fix the problems that currently exist in the Choice Program.
I am not walking back on this. I made a commitment to you and to the veterans and we are going to see this through.
the law says what it says and the conversations that we have had over a long period of time confirm that.
In my prior life before coming to VA, as a community provider, we participated in health information exchanges.
I mean, one of the biggest concerns we have is the transition between the DoD and the VA.
We are not taking a wait-until-we-improve-the-system approach.
