I think our country is really being blessed with a lot of Transportation Secretaries that have done a tremendous job.
We do not want to have some arbitrary cutoff date when science tells us that you have gone as far as you can go.
We appreciate all of you all's hard work for our veterans.
The trouble is, though, you cannot--this is something that if we are going to be short on physicians 5 years from now yo...
Well, really both, in the sense it is one thing to go home, with restored function as best we can do; it is another thin...
We can work hard and work hard on our making sure that the veterans have the benefits that were promised.
Right now, we are losing an average of 22 a day, which is 8,000 a year, and that is far too many.
There should not be an arbitrary line drawn that says we cannot help this individual anymore.
This really is a huge problem, and it is not just with VA.
There is no difference, very little difference of opinion in regard to our infrastructure.
I do appreciate you holding this hearing about such an important topic.