I think, ultimately, in the end, what everybody on this Committee wants to have is we live up to the promises made when you signed the dotted line.

I believe that my community care bill does exactly that.

In my view, a doc and a veteran should talk about that veteran's specific needs.

The best thing you guys on the VA Committee could do would be to disband Choice and put every dollar into the VA and focus on the VA.

Your commitment to solid communication and making it so there are no surprises, has been critically important on this Committee to move the ball ahead.

The fact that anyone in uniform has to deal with sexual assault or harassment during the course of their service to our country is unacceptable.

Access to safe, quality health care has always been critical to veterans.

What would ultimately happen is we would start restricting availability and veterans would not be able to have the same access to care that they have today.

I want to thank you for calling maybe the most important hearing that we are going to have this year.

We cannot let VA lose oversight of the quality of care the veterans receive, regardless where it is.

It is no secret that incidents of cyber-harassment of a sexual nature are on the rise.

as a father of four and a traveling family, I know how important and challenging it is for nursing mothers to find a space to care for and feed their children. As our society and economy becomes ever more transient, we need to provide…

We could start by one you helped sponsor, is to reverse the Cottonwood decision.

Unfortunately, we should rename the Libby Loggers, the 'Libby Lawyers,' because that is the only folks crawling around the forests right now, the lawyers, because the logger has been put out of business.

It is a program that my individual company has participated in, and it keeps the private forest in private.

I can tell you that the people of Montana can manage grizzly bear populations.

We should celebrate the delisting and transfer that to the States.

We have a crisis on the eastern part of our State right now with drought.