Martha Roby

So we look instead of making it more bureaucratic, we need to hold people accountable and that is what has been lacking at the VA is accountability.

I am not going to wait for a broken bureaucracy to fix itself.

What is clear here, though, Mr. Chairman, is that the status quo is not going to cut it.

This legislation focuses on the most dysfunctional medical centers in the Nation, ones that need major innovation and oversight at the highest levels of the VA.

I cannot overstate the malfeasance that took place during his tenure and the lasting harm that he inflicted on our veterans in Alabama.

This committee is not doing a service to the four people who died or their families.

This committee in all that time and effort has unearthed nothing.

I rise with my colleagues this afternoon to remind all that today is a very special day. Today is the Seventh Annual Congressional Women's Softball Game that we play for the Young Survival Coalition. Each of us is playing either in memory…

It took a year and a half for that individual to be fired. This is the culture that we are talking about.

Thanks to Mr. Tremaine, we uncovered layers of scandal at the Central Alabama VA, thousands of missing x rays, manipulated medical records.

Congress has the ability to change the law, and so we need to be looking at all of the ways that we can address what in my opinion is--literally what keeps me up at night.

I think it is just outright wrong for us to be trying to fix our budget woes here in Washington solely on the backs of our military.

I think it is flat-out wrong that we are trying to use our military as a means to an end

I want to count on you to see that such policies are reversed and good programs like Safe State are allowed to do their jobs and keep workers safe.

The U.S. Department of Education ought not to be able to tie funding to coercion of State and local school boards

The intrusion of the Federal Government into that process, directly or indirectly, is inappropriate and it invariably comes with a political agenda from here in D.C.

Those that are up here making decisions about how children in Alabama should be educated when they have not even been to Alabama... should be the ones in the driver's seat.

I believe that there is a broad agreement in both the House and the Senate that the executive branch has exceeded its reach when it comes to State education policy.

I introduced a bill called Defending State Authority Over Education Act, and it sought specifically to prohibit the Secretary of the Department of Education and future Secretaries from using grants and policy waivers to coerce States into…

I would love to see all high school students graduate not just with a high school diploma, but with some AP credits or early college or industry certification.

I think many students drop out of high school not because it is too hard, but because it is too easy and they don't understand the relevance of what they are doing in school to the real world.

Using our military as a means to end our budgetary issues here in Washington is flat-out wrong.

Why is so much time being spent redacting material from these documents?

New Jersey: William Livingston, David Brearley, William Paterson, Jonathan Dayton. Pennsylvania: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Mifflin, Robert Morris, George Clymer, Thomas FitzSimons, Jared Ingersoll, James Wilson, Gouverneur Morris.

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