Our Nation is faced with staggering deficits and debt and is on a fiscal path that is unsustainable.

Reducing or eliminating overlap could actually help agencies provide better services and save billions of dollars each and every year.

I am committed to providing veterans and their families with the benefits they need and they deserve.

The Navy of continuing to mischaracterize a 2009 report by the National Academy of the Sciences' National Research Council.

I want to make sure we pay for those benefits and the services by looking at other programs and looking at cuts.

I would think that anyone here today who found out that the water they had been drinking contained gasoline would find that a little alarming.

Sometimes common sense has to trump trying to look for some major breakthrough that is not being used.

Well, VA has estimated the cost in the past.

I would be willing to bet that there is not a VSO--and I will ask them at the next hearing how many of them know that you have got an incentive program.

I think the VA has made the greatest, simplest claim as to why this bill ought to become law.

We could spend a day with just the VA alone.

I cannot imagine any company in America not referring to their counsel or to outside counsel an allegation by an employee or a customer of sexual charges.

I have been through two Administrations and multiple people who fill your role come in and share with the Chairman and me the great plan that they had in effect to reduce the backlog, yet annually I have seen the backlog increase and…

I hope the Senators on this Committee will take a closer look at this issue and seriously consider the scope and severity of the contamination.

I want to personally thank you Madam Chairman and Senator Burr, the Ranking Member and senior Senator from my home state of North Carolina, for providing me this opportunity to testify in support of S. 277, the Caring for Camp Lejeune…

Senator Burr's bill, S. 277, is a step in the right direction in rectifying this tragic situation.

Senator Burr's bill, S. 277 is a step in the right direction in rectifying this tragic situation.

I perceive that it is problematic for the Committee to have the Department of Defense, specifically TRICARE, be the provider to this population.