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

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…

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

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

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 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…

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

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

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

But on the other hand, I think if you don't accept that help, you know, and let us help you, then we are going to hold you accountable.

You know when this all started this really was a thing that started from the ground up...

It has got to be a record just spending $7,000 in any agency of government as far as moving forward.

I agree totally with the comments of Mr. Buyer.

I would just encourage you, you know, what we are here to do is really to try and help move this thing forward.

It is simply unacceptable that these soldiers and veterans have lost their vision not on the battle field, but here at home under our watch.

You either don't want to do it or you are incompetent.

This not doing the concept of OPS, that doesn't cost any money.

Our Appropriators, they are not saying the same thing that you are saying.

So why didn't we do that a year ago?

I believe that we can, and we must, do much more to serve these veterans by establishing the Vision Center of Excellence that was authorized in appropriated funds for last year.

I want to thank all three of you guys. My dad retired as a master sergeant in the Air Force, so he was an enlisted guy, so I feel very comfortable around you all.

The problem is it is not getting done.

I mean, do you all agree that we have a problem based on the testimony of the three and from the field?

I appreciate their work to stay current on the progress toward meeting the August 1, 2009 implementation date for the Post-9/11 GI Bill.

I look forward to our continued cooperation and communication as the VA develops the new Chapter 33 rules and regulations.