"I support the effort to institute competitive pay for VA medical center directors."
"This draft legislation is another step forward in revising hiring practices at the Department of Veterans Affairs."
"I believe the department implemented the program to the best of their ability under trying circumstances."
"When Congress passed and the President signed the Veterans Access Care and Accountability Act in 2014, this was a promise to all veterans from all eras that they would get the care they earned on the ..."
"This plan submitted to Congress in 2015 would bring under one umbrella a program that is easy to understand and more importantly to implement."
"After more than a decade of war, veterans deserve to have ready access to the best health care available to them."
"I am pleased to be a cosponsor of Congressman O'Rourke's bill, H.R. 1319, the Ask Veterans Act."
"It is important for us to, I think, review the legislation that has been referred to this Subcommittee"
"I wanted to just highlight three bills today that I am a co-author on."
"It is important for us to review the legislation that has been referred to this subcommittee."
"From my perspective, it is not because of the surveying that the VA is doing now, it is sort of comprehensive, it is sort of national."