Political Quotes

“today marks a pivotal day for veterans in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region. Just minutes ago, the House of Representatives approved the Senate bill to extend several important authorizations to Coloradans, authorizations important to the health care of our country's veterans because the bill includes the authorization to complete the Denver VA replacement medical facility. After years of persistence, years of passion, years of emotion, we have finally passed a bill to finish the job at the Denver VA replacement facility in Aurora, CO. This bill will allow us to finish the job, allowing the replacement facility that is critical for the care of veterans in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region to move forward, to fulfill the promise we have made to our veterans. This bill also turns the page on the gross mismanagement by the VA of this project and will allow the Army Corps of Engineers to take over the management of the project to ensure its completion without further delay. There is simply no acceptable excuse for how the project ended up in this current state--years delayed, hundreds of millions of dollars over budget. While the bill will turn the page on this day, it will not turn our focus away from reforms at the VA to ensure accountability and to ensure this never happens again.…”