Mike Coffman

I think they need stricter oversight and enforcement.

This is simply outrageous and could very well make the hospital the most expensive in our nation's history.

Today we will address H.R. 571, the Veterans Affairs Retaliation Prevention Act of 2015.

The fundamental challenge is for this organization to reflect your values and I am not sure that that is going to happen.

I think that is just characteristic of your glossing over the extraordinary problems confronted by your department.

Each major construction project is hundreds of millions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule. That is a problem.

For you to say that you are going to the Army Corps of Engineers to advise you as to how to correct the extraordinary problems, let me tell you I think what you need to do is focus on providing the healthcare benefits and the other…

I must be kind of simple, because I am looking at this bird sanctuary on this property...

I just think that it is such an outrage that--we all have homeless veterans in our areas...

I think it was probably at the top of his list, was dealing with the veterans' homelessness...

I want to thank the oversight of the American Legion on this critical issue. And Ranking Member Kuster, I think you have a great idea, we will do a follow-on hearing to make sure that this is all implemented that we are talking about today.

It is going to take until October of this year to find out that you are in violation of the law when you are already in violation of the law.

An Examination of Waste and Abuse Associated With VA's Management of Land-Use Agreements.

I don't understand why you have to go through some kind of bureaucratic process to determine that you are in violation of law when you are already in violation of law.

I want to make sure that our wounded, double amputee above the knees, 2-year rehabilitation, remains on active duty.

And we need transparency, and we don't have that right now in the VA system.

My obligation to the veterans of this country is to make sure that the VA can function and meet the obligation to our Nation's veterans.

As bad as the cost overruns are right now--we are hundreds of millions of dollars over budget. We are years behind schedule.

The problem I have in asking a question is I am so opposed to the existing system we have, because I think it doesn't serve veterans, it doesn't serve taxpayers, and we need to abandon it and go back to Vietnam-era plan.

I am very concerned that it is more that this whole attack on proprietary trade schools is really focused on the working class Americans in terms of their ability to advance to the middle class.

I think we ought to look at going back to that Vietnam-era plan where we give an amount of money to a veteran and let the veteran shop for what program.

I think that the fundamental mistake made by the Congress--and I was an Army veteran, I went to the University of Colorado under the Vietnam-era GI Bill...

I am particularly interested in hearing from Congressman O'Rourke about a voluntary alternative appeals process he developed with DAV.

I am going to take it that that is in violation of current law.

But what does for the most part mean?