Mike Coffman: “If there were Gulf War veterans in senior positions in the Veterans Administration, I don't think we would be here…”

It has been an honor these first 2 years to represent the veterans--all the veterans in the district.

You will never change the culture of bureaucratic incompetence in the VA unless you are willing to look through those 400 positions.

You have had very, very positive things and intuitive things that you have done for not only constituents in your district, but across the entire country.

I think the notion that we're still at the point where neither DoD or VA has taken the lead--and I think that one of them has to have ownership for it.