I hope we can proceed to reauthorize the Bulletproof Vest Partnership grant program and other important law enforcement measures, and Congre...
Since we enacted the original Leahy-Campbell law, the vest program has contributed to the purchase of nearly 1 million ballistic vests to he...
The thing that surprised most people...was the fact that these vests do wear out.
I would be telling them to do exactly that.
Is there a way that we can speed up the hiring of the caseworkers, or turf that out so we can get these veterans off?
I am holding the hearing today because the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act expires in September, and I want you to know I will introd...
When I worked to introduce and pass the original bulletproof vest program in 1998, I joined with then-Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell.
Which is why some of us, among other things, are trying to build community health centers all over the country.
Struggle in terms of how to feed your family, or take care of your child, or go to work.
if you are poor, if you are uneducated, you are more likely to become ill.
I think you have a whole lot of children and other people are walking around with teeth that are rotting in their mouths, and causing infect...
We don't need to be treating our wounded warriors and heroes this way.
If, as his officials claim, the above examples are merely 'isolated' cases, it should be a straightforward matter to correct the abuses in t...
I can only conclude that for whatever reason, the VA officials with whom I have interacted have not told the Secretary what is happening on ...
It is embarrassing to me as I said as a father, as a veteran, and just a citizen of the country.
Mr. Chairman, every person to whom I have spoken who knows Secretary Shinseki... has told me that the Secretary is one of the most honorable...
So what we've done is we just took his money away from this veteran, am I--I mean, just took it.
That sounds pretty arrogant to me, to think that a judge in a hometown that knows my folks better than anybody up at Webber Wood, is now bei...