I believe increasing the stipend should be high on our list of uses for the money.

When I think of benefits to improve the lives of disabled veterans, I am very proud of the vocational rehabilitation and employment.

I believe veterans continue to drop out of the program for reasons within our control.

I still do not understand how VA calculates the rehabilitation rate. To me, if you have about 100,000 participants and 12,000 are rehabilitated in a year, the rate is 12 percent, not 75 percent.

I suspect VR&E is the most effective disability rehabilitation program offered by the Federal Government.

Finally, I want to thank Director Fanning and her staff for their efforts to put disabled veterans back to work.

I am also concerned that in our zeal to rehabilitate veterans and returning them to the workforce, the program occasionally fails to consider all aspects of a potential training program, including costs and availability of similar…

I believe the Tennessee Valley Authority has traditionally been a good steward of the environment and one of the more accountable Federal agencies.

It is important to recognize that this spill directly impacted more than 40 property owners. Homes were rendered uninhabitable.

I have full faith that both the board and the management of the Tennessee Valley Authority will join me in ensuring that from this point on TVA will become a model agency; both in terms of its mission to the Tennessee Valley region, and…

If you are an environmentalist, you are an urbanist. We need urban density again.