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Fire the corrupt, incompetent VA executives who let our veterans down.

I want people to know that working at the VA is a tremendous privilege.

It is a broken process. It will not get better without your help, and we certainly hope that you and your colleagues will pass a modernization act this year.

Veterans are not religions and Democrats and Republicans, they all bleed red.

Unfortunately, it was determined to be unconstitutional, and now the Department of Justice did not choose to go and to defend that.

We do not currently have that right on either side, so I see this as a dual-pronged process.

I expect to be held accountable if you give me that authority and I am not getting the job done.

VA does not believe that the court interpreted the statute correctly.

Every day that we delay, veterans are being put in the middle, and that is really unfair to them.

We shared the common vision that we have to do a lot better for our veterans.

I am a strong advocate for the VA, that the services that are available in VA are not available in the private sector.

I think that trust was eroded, particularly with the wait time crisis in April 2014, and many people lost trust.

If you do not have trust in the group that is empowered to take care of you and provide you services, you cannot do your job very well.

I will continue to request appropriate levels of funding to ensure that Veteran homelessness is rare, brief, and nonrecurring.

I fully support reforming the current appeals process.

To care for him who shall have borne the battle.

The Department of Veterans Affairs will not be privatized under my watch.

If confirmed as Secretary, I will seek major reform and a transformation of VA.