"Thank you for saying that. It tells me that you understand the challenges that are facing you, that you're working to make the problems better, and I appreciate that."
"I appreciate the opportunity to examine major lease projects at the Department of Veterans Affairs."
"I have seen a sea change in leadership. I have seen Secretary McDonald take seriously the reports of deficiencies at the VA and work hard to try to fix them."
"I have concerns not just about the failures of OPM leadership but also the failures of its contractors, in particular USIS, because it looks like what happened here wasn't just recklessness or neglige..."
"Every time you use that term, I believe you will now be intentionally misleading the American public."
"I would like to spend some time discussing an issue that is very important to me and to many Members of Congress and that is the continued detention of women, children, and infants in prison-like cond..."
"Me and 135 Members of Congress feel that way and 33 Members of the Senate still feel that way."
"These are actually jail-like facilities. They should be called family prison facilities or family detention facilities or family jail facilities but not family residential centers."
"we are troubled by the Department of Homeland Security's continued detention of mothers and children in secure, jail-like facilities."
"The Affordable Care Act was a disaster at rollout, and people--there were people that knew it was not ready and it launched."
"Forty-five years ago we sent a man to the moon and brought him back, so it's not as if our government can't contract with very complicated systems."