I have been impressed with the dozens of claims pilot projects that VA has got up and running.
I say with some degree of pride that, for example, the Lincoln office in my home State of Nebraska is well ahead of the VA's national averag...
It would be great if, as you attend... you would take that as an action item kind of a meeting.
I think this might be one of the first times for you.
I encourage you, as you work--again, back to the Alaska issues--to continue to reach out to the veteran communities and our office.
It should.
If a person walks in there and says, 'I am an advocate,' they are an advocate.
It is not about someone having to find these services. It is an advocate who reaches out and gets the services to the members who earned the...
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Thank you all for being here today.
It just doesn't make sense.
It should be a separate issue.
I am hopeful, whatever we do here and on the floor of the Senate, that we do not have that same delay.
Do you think there's the political will to get beyond the debate of liability caps and torts?
I don't think that's about lawyers who represent primarily plaintiffs or lawyers who represent primarily defendants.
I sympathize with your loss, your two losses, but also the nine other families that need also be recognized.
I must admit that when I see the types of visitor centers and facilities at most National Park properties, and knowing the budget stresses t...
I appreciate the long standing tradition in this body of allowing the delegation from a state to take the lead on federal land designations ...
I think we are starting to see what I am calling this flight of investment from the Gulf...
