I would expect for these administrative judges you are talking about that very few would have representation with them.

So wait. I am sorry to interrupt you.

the individuals that are truly disabled need to be protected in the system.

I wish in some way this was an unprecedented backlog.

So either way it is a really bad situation for them.

Senators Heidi Heitkamp and James Lankford introduced bipartisan legislation to the Senate.

I unfortunately will not be able to stay through the whole hearing, as all of us have multiple hearings at multiple times.

In Oklahoma, our estimate from the Department of Education is somewhere around 100,000 Native American students. The current estimate by Johnson-O'Malley 11,000.

We want to be able to help in that process, to be able to get it to a more effective spot.

We need to modernize our approach to Indian education.

These veterans, like all veterans, deserve our upmost respect and gratitude.

These men and women who have served our Country deserve better than that, Mr. Chairman.

We want a basic list of all the programs and a list of their effectiveness.

Their sacrifices, coupled with the Federal Government's trust responsibilities, require us to remedy this situation.

This has been an ongoing project for a long time. When you deal with Johnson-O'Malley, one thing is clear every time you deal with it, and that is, the count is wrong.

So why? Tell me the percentage to make you say that this has to be the legislation that you guys are proposing, because all it sounds like to me is just more regulation on an industry that is struggling the way that it is now.

But, Mr. Smith, I am saying that you are basing your opinion not on the vets or the patients, the consumers.

Well, yes, it would, because if there are a few bad apples, let's go after the bad apples, let's not go after the entire industry and use a one-size-fits-all approach that we do so often up here.