Bob Filner: “I have no further requests for time, I would urge support of the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time. General…”

It is time for VA to uphold its responsibility, to our veterans and to the American people, to break this cycle of un-productivity and deliver the benefits that the agency was created to provide.

There is no plan, Ms. Hickey. There is no transformation.

Nothing has worked. It has gotten worse. And you refuse to admit it.

We do not need all these thousands of employees and bureaucracy after bureaucracy after bureaucracy.