Are they doing anything, based on what's happening right now in this country, with these recalls?

What systematic changes are necessary for us to ensure that the car safety and other safety efforts you move forward on are there, and that you have the resources to do it.

I firmly believe that there is a role for the Japanese government, here, to step up and to make sure that what they are sending to our borders is safe.

I own a Highlander hybrid. I drove it from Alaska to here--19 days, 5,000 miles, and it did a good job.

I don't think our consumers have been treated right, not only by what has happened here regarding the U.S. Government, but what has happened regarding a government that has been an ally through the years, but, quite honestly, has not…

Can you submit that to the Committee for review?

You have a hefty job by moving a large ship--a large budget of $100 billion plus.

I think we had a similar conversation about this, and I guess I would like you to expand, if you could, on what efforts you see in the long term as well as in the medium term of how veterans access services where they are starting to live…

People will make some decisions--the economic decision versus maybe convenience.

We are seeing 40,000 patients on average per day involved in that program, and I am expecting to see this grow exponentially over the next several years.

I appreciate the Senator's constant reminder that this debate is about real people. I don't know what the debates were in years past. I was not here, as Senator McCaskill and Senator Merkley mentioned. I was not here. People read and watch…

2.7 million people are no longer insured through private insurance. The odds are there are veterans there.

Telehealth is a huge investment for us. We see this as the next step in the delivery of health care in VA, even the country.

The public has spoken, and they want transparency. They want it clean, they want it simple, and they want to understand what it is talking about, without this whole business of jamming in things left and right. Here, this is simple…

I know in my state the answer is: They will. This is a significant problem even at the 21-percent rate of reimbursement. So not only do we have the unemployed now, whom the other side seems to have a problem with, yet when it comes to the…

I know we talked about unemployment which is a significant piece of this bill. I also want to point out there are other pieces. I want to make sure I am correct. Maybe the Senator could clarify this. I know he mentioned in the very early…

Small businesses that were probably in the process of pursuing their dreams and hopes in this recession of creating a new opportunity to help those unemployed and others to build our economy. In Alaska, 52 percent of our employment is…

I implore you as your first order of business upon your return from the snow... to extend the emergency unemployment benefits through the end of 2010 that are due to expire on the 28th of Feb. Thank you. He was thanking me in advance for…

In my State, it is 9 percent. I will lay out a couple points. In my State, the 9 percent, which is one of the highest in years for us, one of the highest numbers ever in a long time, but when you look at it by region--and I am curious if…

If you keep a strong maintenance, you are kind of getting to ground zero. But you are now forward thinking.

I really felt we tackled employment issues, as well as VA health care issues.

Why don't we just figure out what the backlog range is?

My point is there seems to be, at least from the review of some of the records that I have seen, an inconsistent effort in making sure that you have the right people working for you.

Could you at least at a minimum, if we don't hear the answer to that when I move through the panel here, get us an answer?

There's always room for improvement no matter what you're doing.