Mark Begich actually said...

"What do we do regarding preventative work?"

"It's better to find those ideas, see where we can improve, recognize criticism is not a negative, but it's a positive to improve a system."

"Is it because they have to go to Alaska or is it because of the cost, or that the income is not as great as they could get doing it elsewhere, or it's a family--what's the draw here?"

"I'm just a big fan of encouraging because we have--it's no criticism to the VA; it's a criticism to kind of our bureaucracy of how we do business."