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I have serious concerns about the error rates in the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs, which for the 2013 and 2014 school year were 15.8 percent and 23.1 percent, respectively.

I appreciate you and Ranking Member Stabenow holding this hearing today, and as we do prepare to reauthorize the child nutrition legislation this coming year, we need to, I think, take an objective and bipartisan critical assessment of the…

But, when we have programs with error rates that are $2.7 billion just for one school year, we simply have got to figure out how to put this money to better use.

Obviously, no one in this room wants any child to go hungry. We all know there are legitimate needs for food assistance.

How do I respond to them when they ask me why they are being made to feel as if they are law breakers?

What concerns me the most is that with the listing of this northern long-eared bat, once again we have a Federal agency that is throwing aside common sense.

But there seems to be a breakdown in terms of the attitude of who knows best.

Listing the northern long-eared bat under the Endangered Species Act is a misguided attempt by the Fish and Wildlife Service.

For an easement violation you would send an armed officer in a flak jacket?

Thousands of jobs are going to be placed at risk, including more than 1,500 timber industry jobs in my home State of South Dakota.

I'm hopeful that the Senate will be able to pass this bipartisan STB reform bill in the near future.

You are going to need a plan. Would you commit that you will bring back to this Committee a plan for putting this in order?

A significant part of the VA's responsibilities has to do with the delivery of health care.

There has been a discussion already about data integrity and the fact that the Acting Inspector General now has testified that the Inspector General's office cannot trust VA self-reported data showing a reduction of the backlog of…

I think this is like a swamp filled with gators. Every time you try to drain it, you have one more gator biting someplace that you do not like.

I think it is important that we help and then employ our veterans that need it the most.

Helping these men and women find opportunities in which they can use their military skills and training as they transition into a civilian life is something the VA has been working on.

To really help put a model in place, a new operating model to transform the VA from one that takes the best of the private sector and the best of what we do.