I just wanted to follow-up on my line of questioning earlier with regards to, you know, the core VistA system.

We need to make sure that, if they die, that we are taking care of them and they don't have to worry about their family once they are deceased.

I think this is a really important bill to try to meet that criteria, if you will.

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.

First I would like to thank Chairman Miller and Ranking Member Brown for their help in moving the Female Veteran Suicide Prevention Act forward. I would also like to recognize my colleague from Arizona whose bill honoring the memory of her…

This plan submitted to Congress in 2015 would bring under one umbrella a program that is easy to understand and more importantly to implement.

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 battlefield in defense of our Nation.

After more than a decade of war, veterans deserve to have ready access to the best health care available to them.

I believe the department implemented the program to the best of their ability under trying circumstances.

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.