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The system was designed, it was too complex and too difficult to maneuver.

I travel around the country. I get letters from all of you and from veterans directly.

The lack of military competency among community providers is quite significant.

I couldn't agree more with him that we have to act now to ensure that our veterans have timely access to the care that they need.

Let me be clear. No one is advocating that we privatize the VA.

I am concerned that veterans nationwide may encounter significant lapses in care if we don't act quickly.

[I] think it's common sense that service dogs help. We hear it every day from veterans. I'm not willing to wait [on congressional authority to implement what I can through my existing authority] because there are people out there today…

For the part of the national security apparatus that I oversaw as DNI, there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president-elect at the time or as a candidate or against his campaign.

I do think as well there needs to be more done in the way of sanctions to the Russians or any other government that attempts to interfere with our election process.

That is an assault on our democracy by the Russians I think is profound.

85 percent of the critical infrastructure in the United States is in the private sector.

Absolutely. That has been the pattern.

I would have like to have seen more.

The sanctions that we have imposed particularly after Ukraine were effective.

We need a U.S. information agency on steroids to fight this information war a lot more aggressively than we're doing right now, one that deals with the totality of the information in all forms, to include social media.

Airplane noise has become a national issue. And it is a bipartisan issue here in the Congress.

I am a new cochair of something called the Quiet Skies Caucus.

If we're part of trying to take that apart, we're playing Russia's game.