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I believe that is essential for us to clarify that to be able to get more help to veterans.

Telehealth, as many people may not know, the VA is the largest user of telehealth.

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

Some of the most political figures we know are ministers and rabbis, and they don't feel that they can't speak out.

There's been great wisdom on the part of the Framers and the Johnson Amendment in protecting our houses of worship, our political institutions, from the corrosive effects of political money.

I can't imagine why we now want to take the only part of American life that is not polarized and put it right into the thick of the ugliest part of our life.

I think it was a diversionary play.

So, over time, we do have such hearings as this, and people come up with notions--well, we have to have a passenger bill of rights.

I can't imagine why we haven't had a hearing like this, based on what my colleagues have to go through.

Are each of the airlines here willing to boil down what the customer is entitled to to a one-pager?

But, essentially, you represent four regional monopolies.

[N]othing is more important to me than making sure that we don't lose any veterans to suicide. As you know, 20 veterans a day are dying by suicide. That should be unacceptable to all of us. This is a national public health crisis, and it…

Nothing is more important to me than making sure that we don't lose any veterans to suicide.

I don't care where people are on climate change. The science is pretty clear on that.

I have to tell all of you sitting at the table: I was a tenured professor of law before I came to Congress.

So could they work together to stop the kind of tax evasion we've been talking about, the common reporting standard and FATCA, Ms. Bean?

I'm going to ask you to think about that, because this is the kind of modification that is going to take bipartisan support.

I have to ask you, when you say you would like repeal, do you really mean you want no law on the books that went after the bad guys so that we could make sure that the good guys weren't, in fact, caught?