"Thank you. I wanted to know--you had mentioned in your testimony identifying access gaps, I think is how you termed it. So what are they?"
"I honestly am a firm, firm believer that in order for us to really improve the VA and change culture, we really need to be in a mindset of continuous improvement, always--always trying to improve."
"Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So, I wanted to ask a few questions around our service to veterans who are Native Americans."
"Thank you for your extraordinary leadership on this committee and the committee as a whole and for continuing to keep the issue of access to quality and timely services provided to our rural veterans ..."
"I know I can say with great certainty that our--the VA committee back in Washington had many, many meetings around this crisis."
"At the end of the day, we want to provide high quality, timely healthcare to our veterans in every single corner of our country."
"we want change and we want the VA to be veteran-centric, service-focused."
"I think, therapy through telemedicine, talk therapy, one-on-one, group sessions, these are all good."
"this crisis has been specific in terms of wait times, but we know that we have had issues with capacity."
"this must not--should not be--must be a bipartisan approach to this and we must collectively solve this problem."
"I think the expectation is we would go to conference and resolve the smaller differences and move forward."