Political Quotes

“Veterans, veterans health care particularly, has been the top priority, and will be the top priority, of this committee. In a time of tight budgets, we provided a $400 million increase over the President's request for VA medical care. This is $1.1 billion over the current fiscal year. This is why I say VA medical care is again our top priority in this bill. This continues our commitment to our Nation's veterans, to ensure that they receive the health care they deserve. In the past 2 fiscal years, we added $3 billion to the President's request for medical care in order to ensure no veterans would be turned away, no layoffs of critical medical staff would occur, and that funds needed for treating hepatitis C, the homeless, the mentally ill, and other critically important needs of veterans would be fully funded. As a result, the VA has been treating more veterans in its medical program than ever.”