Presidents have clearly ignored the requirement to minimize the size of national monuments when proclaiming many of the national monuments c...
Originally intended for the preservation of often-vandalized archeological sites, the Antiquities Act of 1906 granted the President unilater...
it is not about gamesmanship. One of the problems that I get concerned about is that we have essentially made this into a game of rhetoric, ...
Ending Dodd-Frank would take us back to a future without the tools to deal with 'too-big-to-fail.'
I think we need to better understand it, if, in fact, we provide fair but effective oversight to an IT program of this size.
In the budget submission, you do say that you will decide 335,000 fewer claims in 2013 and 2014, right?
Secretary, you said earlier that we will move out of the rescue phase on homelessness.
I appreciate that, Mr. Secretary, and I encourage it.
Twenty fifteen remains our target.
Currently, nearly 70 percent of the claims are backlogged, meaning that they have been waiting for a decision for more than 125 days.
the VA backlog reduction plan shows that in order to eliminate the backlog by 2015 VA will need to decide 1.2 million claims this year, 1.6 ...
the lack of consistent predictions and a lack of transparency lead me to question if VA's stewardship of the taxpayers' money is leading to ...
it's important that we provide adequate funding for the VA so that all veterans receive the benefits and care that they have earned and dese...
we must conduct vigorous oversight to make sure programs which benefit veterans are working properly and lead to better outcomes for veteran...
to truly have economic prosperity and economic freedom there first and must always be the protection of religious liberties and with human r...
The ongoing conflict in Syria confronts us with terrible challenges.
The more Syria unravels, the more the state comes apart.
if we are going to make a statement we need to have teeth and action behind that statement, not just simply rhetoric that plays well in the ...