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It would help if we had a budget, not a continuing resolution.

What should we be attending to in the next round of VA and veterans' legislation?

Every day that you delay a nursing-home placement, the veteran is happier and the taxpayers are happier.

Could you define expansion? Are we talking 20, 30 percent, 40 percent? I mean----

My concern about that--and we'll talk to others about it--this is a rule that the--CMS is the federal agency...

I mean that can't work for very long.

Well, I thought Mike made an important point because we're all talking about hiring people but, Mike, you made the point about stability and retention.

It's not exactly a morale booster.

Always a bad place to be.

For the record, I totally agree with that statement.

I think Brunswick or Portland is halfway between Madawaska and New York City. People don't realize how tall Maine is.

It seems to me to start with your testimony, as I mentioned, the problem that you had with the VA wasn't with the programs or the adequacy, it was the time, and I'm delighted my office could help, but it shouldn't take that step to get…

One of the concerns--and I've heard this when I've met with their agencies, particularly in rural Maine, is an epidemic of loneliness.

The best news I've heard so far is the expansion of the home-based care.

Certainly that's important. You have what amounts to a nursing home at Togus.

We've really got to work on that because it would be awful to have somebody who's ready, wants a mission, wants to do it but they can't wait for nine months or a year.

I've told my staff I want to be the falls senator; without falling.

That's a big part of----