Thank you. Let me thank both of you in this hearing, particularly on the PACT Act, recognizing the tremendous increase in work, you and your teams.

That is a good point for me to recognize, is this was really intended for internal use.

I remain concerned about the impact the PACT Act is having on the backlog for veterans and survivors.

How is the VA working across the VA to better communicate to veterans, survivors, and other stakeholders about where a claim is in the process of being decided and manage expectations for how long an individual will have to wait for that…

I am certainly honored to be here and stand beside my colleague and friend, Coach Tommy Tuberville, as we work through a very, very challenging situation regarding our military nominations. I have tried to listen to the arguments from my…

America's attention is rightfully drawn to supporting Ukraine's defense against Russia's illegal and unjustified war. At the same time, we are contending with China, which is undergoing the largest peacetime expansion of military power in…

We are going to pursue this and get to the bottom of this, no matter what.

Because we need the equal application of justice.

We need to take every opportunity to remind the Biden Administration that the Constitution provides that Congress, not the executive branch, with the sole authority to lay and collect taxes.

Just want to also, just to be clear, just to review for the hearing, Democrats want to solve drug trafficking, we want to solve human trafficking, and certainly want to solve any sort of arms trafficking, which funds the cartels.

It is definitely our duty to support them however we can, both during and after their service.

The Arctic is also a case study in not only how climate change impacts us globally.

the Biden-Harris administration's national strategy for the Arctic region, which was published, of course, just last year, is a vital step in creating a cross-agency plan for the Arctic as it relates to the United States.

I would encourage my colleagues to vote in favor of the SERV Act and support successful entrepreneurship for our veterans.

Our nation's veterans are uniquely prepared to become entrepreneurs and to lead small businesses.

Washington has a spending problem. I know it, you know it, and more importantly, the American people know it. Our addiction to unaccountable spending has resulted in our Nation accumulating more than $32 trillion in debt, leading to…

We should stop advancing a narrative which undermines a resistance to Vladimir Putin, who has killed thousands of people.

The VA opposes Section 103, that was just mentioned, of the Veterans HEALTH Act.