I find it baffling at this point.

I don't still to this day understand why it is so difficult to provide this report.

Rural America faces challenges. I am always a little bit hesitant to use the word unique because it is oftentimes an overused word.

I mean, I totally agree with your assessment.

I hope the VA--Sam, you correctly point out we ought to do a little better job of trying to identify how to prevent post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Absolutely. I mean, that is the reason for a national electronic record.

I think you are the one that can break those silos.

I am also concerned about providing adequate employment assistance to veterans, especially with the thousands of new veterans expected from the proposed DOD drawdown.

Over 4,500 American troops are dead, and tens of thousands wounded, $1 trillion of added debt to our country.

Is that what we should do?

we should be best friends with Russia in dealing with the China threat and the radical Islamic threat.

I have asked over and over again, Madam Chairman, for lists of names of people who are political prisoners in Russia.

I'd like to be on the record to make sure I am appalled at that type of activity.

I think my commitment to human rights is very evident and I would, of course, support legislation that would hold human rights abusers in Russia or anywhere else.

I think it's okay to say okay, they got political prisoners as a result of this war with radical Islam.

Let's not use the most sinister words that we can possibly think up to describe things that are not quite that sinister.

I'm really appalled at the double standard that we use toward Russia.

What we are doing this way is we are undermining the broad area of cooperation that would be mutually beneficial to our two countries.