We are not provided this information. We are not going to be able to give you specific recommendations that you can act ...
But to dig just a little bit deeper, are you at odds with the VA relative to the conclusion you have come to that there ...
The Chairman has been incredibly accommodating to me this morning. You stated that you felt that updating the ratings sc...
And those options all require further study to refine, is sort of the way I interpret everything.
What was the VA's expectations of Dr. Kettner's 6-month study?
We are going to get to the bottom of this and we are either going to move forward or we will find another avenue.
Is unduly restrictive . . . and inconsistent with current models of disability.
I will only say to my colleagues and to those from the VA, I am not going to let this out of my teeth.
we believe it is a very high priority and it will fix so many of the small things that we talk about
I am trying to figure out, why did we do this?
I think we all agree that the VA rating schedule is probably the cornerstone of the entire disability compensation syste...
I hope if you, as chair of the Advisory Committee, see it as a high priority task, then I want to understand up front
the committee felt that it was important that the VA focus full-time effort on updating the ratings schedule
We needed better outcomes, we needed more investment to make sure that the outcomes of the American people were, in fact...
I trust my colleague. He said our goal is to only get safe products to market.
I have deep respect for Senator Harkin--debating tobacco. And at that point, the FDA was the only agency in the world th...
I think we're all concerned about cost and cost containment. And I think that that's a very big issue.
I think it is absolutely essential that you tell us whether the next step are congressional steps, the next steps are VA...
