"Maybe not a culture of recklessness, but morale was an issue."
"The importance of what you are doing here today is that you are not just sitting here as the Senator from Ohio, concerned about these veterans and this issue that is occurring in your State."
"This is an official hearing of the U.S. Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, an official hearing even though it is not in Washington."
"Thank you for your work in that new facility."
"What specifically are you doing to give people more trust and more faith and more certainty that this is not going to happen again here?"
"Should there be?"
"There were significant management problems here."
"This is abhorrent, that any patient who would enter the VA would be placed at risk."
"The fact that these practices were ongoing and none of us knew, you acknowledged, is equally abhorrent."
"I certainly found that when I was at OMB, an end run around what would normally be the deliberative process and the give and take that you get in a notice and comment rulemaking process."
"This is one of the areas, regulatory review, where we all believe, I think, Democrat and Republican alike, that there is room to help get the economy moving again and create more jobs."
"Do you think another Executive Order is appropriate then?"
"I think it is only logical that to the extent you have concerns, which I understand, and you mentioned political and legal concerns, I think it is the legal concerns that would constrain you."
"My understanding is President Obama revoked that Executive Order, and I do not understand why."
"I would say there is a current check, which is OIRA."
"I do not think courts are expert in economic analysis."
"I think what a lot of these bills do is it adds checks and balances."
"It gets into this issue of strengthening the economic impact analysis."
