Congress has seized the initiative here.
I worked with Senator Specter and we were able to expand public transparency in congressional oversight--but in the end ...
Our Nation's veterans have fought faithfully for our freedom and deserve to be treated with the utmost respect. They hav...
That just shouldn't happen. How in the world does something that egregious happen?
Minimization procedures are supposed to protect the constitutional rights of all of us.
I think that is why you have a lot of Americans on the right and left who are worried about intrusive and unchecked gove...
I've got counties where the unemployment rate is 17 percent, and they look at someone getting a $30,000 bonus.
I'm not asking you today, but I would like to know after this whether those folks got bonuses or not.
We need to ensure that the VA is allocating these resources wisely.
the improvements that have been proposed by Senator Feingold and by Senator Leahy are so important.
That is absolutely, totally intolerable right there when you see something like that.
Did the folks get bonuses? We have held hearings... where those particular institutions had institutional problems.
There is a concern that many of the allegations made in the two reports detailed in the VA OIG testimony may also be occ...
They should expect that in all their dealings with the Department of Veterans Affairs, they will be treated with the utm...
They have a right to expect their claims to be processed in a timely and appropriate manner.
While she cautioned members to tread carefully through this path, we are again here reviewing these bonuses and their ap...
We had a former longest serving member of this committee, the late Senator Ted Kennedy was eight or nine or ten times re...
They didn't follow the statute. It is one thing to talk about oversight and all that and the reauthorization, but the st...
