I strongly believe that this Committee needs to hold aggressive oversight hearings into these issues that the department...
I think the Chairman's intent was to say that they are not all paid for by their insurance company where we have expande...
The truth is that the VA is a medical home and not everybody that prescribes in the private sector is necessarily that p...
We put this management plan into effect in 2009 and we had an upward spike.
My observation would be opiates are prescribed a lot of times because that is what the patient came in and asked for.
What do you see as the biggest impediment for VA making this transition?
It is still difficult to go home and talk about aid to the Palestinians, you know, and $400 million plus when we have th...
At what point, when we continue to just send money and send money and send money and never take it away, does the levera...
Ambassador Patterson, thank you for your service. Truly, the Egyptian people know that you love and care for them and I ...
Can we send a very clear message that unless this stops the money will stop?
Why do you assume the federal government can rank colleges and thereby, presume to know what is best for millions of stu...
Why don't you just make information public? Why don't you revise the way you collect data and then, make that available ...
It is one thing to say states must authorize institutions that operate within their states. It is an entirely another th...
I agree and... I am a student of the Middle East... and I understand that there are but at some point when our words bec...
We are also thankful to those on this committee who have been supportive of this bill, including Senator Casey of Pennsy...
Just this week, the bipartisan Children's Hospital Graduate Medical Education Reauthorization Act was signed into law, a...
opening statement
If we're not focused on outcome, then we've made a huge mistake.
