"I would be remiss if I did not first brag about my State and invite you to it."
"My hope is, based on your experience and what I have read--and I am very supportive of seeing you as the next Secretary--I think it is important that you hone in and be bold about what needs to be don..."
"I was happy to support him when he was nominated."
"This is not new. It is just they did not get the funding years ago, and now we are playing catch-up."
"It just aggravates me when people tell me it is suddenly a new-found problem."
"We just need to get after it and deal with it, and it is going to take years to change it."
"Is the money well deserved for our veterans? Absolutely."
"What we are doing in Alaska... we said, 'What are we doing?'"
"What is our wait time in Alaska in the Northwest Region? It is one of the lowest in the country."
"I have a bill which Senator Murray talked about, and that is reimbursements for doctors in the sense of serving our VA system."
"We do not have the capacity to fill these."