"We need more interoperability between the VA and non-VA care to really make outsource with the non-VA providers more feasible."
"I wish the conversation probably were around things like raising the minimum wage."
"I think it is common sense that Americans believe in a vigorous enforcement, especially of our low-wage workers."
"the Wage and Hour Division is the Department of Labor's most important tool to ensure that workers are receiving the pay and protections they are entitled to under the Fair Labor Standards Act."
"I am a new member of Congress, but I have been a small business owner for over half my life."
"we have passed four appropriations bills in the House with amendments that call for preventing the contracting with businesses that have a history of wage theft."
"$1 billion in wages for more than 1.2 million workers."
"We have got to try to get it right in the VA facilities because of that expectation that the Selkes' son had, you know, that was their comfort zone."
"my thing is if, even if we do approve non-VA, make it more easy, easier for Vets to use that areas like mine, they are still going to have trouble finding that care, you know, in the community."
"Has the VA considered offering other incentives such as loan repayments or increased pay for VA providers willing to work in rural and underserved areas?"
"Ms. Farrisee, can you tell me how many employees under Title 5... received bonuses?"