"Modernizing our VA into a 21st Century organization is not an easy task."
"I think the best thing to do is to completely overturn the 2003 ban."
"it will be dead on arrival if it lands here in Congress."
"As the lead sponsor of the Women Veterans Health Care Improvement Act, I was especially glad to see the budget enable the VA to provide additional specialty care for female veterans."
"In my opinion, it should be treated like all computerized equipment, because that's really--I mean, it shouldn't be discriminated against."
"I see my time is expired, Mr. Chairman, but, yeah, I'd love to ask--to follow up more about that particular policy."
"I think Chairman Bingaman is looking at the work force issue for the larger energy bill, which I appreciate."
"I think people think, 'Well, we just passed this policy, so why not just keep it where it is?'"
"some people do care about it. We just invested $70 billion in the stimulus package."
"the status quo has got to change."
"There would be a real risk to just everyday average families."
"I met, this morning, with Henry Cagey of the Lummi Tribe, who was telling me about this disaster with the loss of the runs, the Fraser River salmon runs, that has been declared a disaster by the Secre..."
"unless we get a handle on carbon dioxide emissions, we are all in this soup together."
"less than 2 percent on natural resource. What does that tell you?"
"I actually think that this rate-of-recovery issue is one that we need to spend more time thinking about."
"I think having more information about that--what else do you think we should do about stranded costs?"
"Making sure those veterans can access care is one of the many problems we're still struggling to address."
"So this is a real challenge."
