The science on climate change is beyond rational dispute: It is a reality--a clear and present threat to our planet--and it must be addressed robustly and urgently.

You may not think of New Hampshire as a space State, but indeed we are.

We are seeing a big drop-off in young people starting businesses, in part because of the kind of student debt they have.

These leaders should be held accountable for failing to take action.

we need to create an environment where concerns are addressed at the earliest possible date.

Why wouldn't the Medical Director who was one of the whistleblowers have been able to convey these concerns up through the chain?

After it was in the Boston Globe that Secretary Shulkin showed up virtually the next day.

I hope that the President will appoint and the Senate will confirm the Secretary in due course and we will be able to move forward with our oversight role.

The role of supervision and the role of oversight is critically important, and we will continue to work together.

We didn't get from the VISN to the central office, again, until this all played out in the Boston Globe.

I think in order to understand where we are and how to restructure, we need to understand where we have been.

You have introduced a bill, the ROI Act, to relieve student debt so that more young entrepreneurs and innovators can get started.

I think it was important and right that the Senate just voted to reinstate net neutrality.

You can't just, in government, wave a magic wand and suddenly have the tools that you need to catch up to the digital age.

Nobody loves red tape but all of us, I think--and you have all agreed in some way--appreciate that regulation helps the quality of life we all enjoy.

I want to work together in a bipartisan way as our Committee does, but we need leadership from the top.

We are tired of receiving reports, we are tired of inaction and, as I mentioned before, there were seven reports on the D.C. VA Medical Center.

Senior leaders must be held accountable for failing to act and we must take a hard look at the organization from top to bottom to determine what is causing this lack of accountability.