There must be an accounting for the failures that have been identified through hard evidence.

And in the end, five veterans died. Five veterans died that we know of.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Pursuant to clause 2(e)(4) of Rule XI of the Rules of the House, public hearing records of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs are also published in electronic form.

Furthermore, there has been a serious breakdown in how the VA assessed its responsibility in diagnosing and reporting Legionella.

I expect the VA to contact my Subcommittee staff and in a bipartisan fashion we will chart out a road ahead.

There was a tragic failure in leadership at the local level, the VISN level, and at the VA central office level.

There needs to be a unified focus from CDC, the VA, and other organizations.

I actually read these things. And I cannot read them if I do not get them.

Today I'm introducing legislation to put an end to the defined benefit retirement plan currently available to Members of Congress. These are extremely difficult economic times. We are in a debt crisis that will require sacrifices on the…

your training is inadequate. Because you have a culture in the United States Air Force that allowed these really pervasive sexual assaults to occur by your senior enlisted personnel during basic training.

In 1969 I did volunteer work at an Army hospital located in Aurora, Colorado, with a Junior Red Cross. This was at the height of the war in Vietnam and wounded soldiers were arriving at the hospital daily. Most were amputees who had lost…

On rollcall No. 633, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.'' ____________________

This year I pushed for and received a congressional investigation into the Dawood National Military Hospital in Afghanistan based on allegations that senior Afghan medical personnel sold U.S. military medical supplies and that Afghan…

It seems like we care more about defending South Korea than the South Koreans.

I believe that the Congress of the United States should stay in session until we resolve this problem of sequestration.

This whole notion of nation building, which has been so incredibly costly.

I would never support a cut that compromised the national security or the capability of this country to defend itself.

I think that we are capable of more cuts in the Department of Defense.

I can tell you, out in those forward operating bases, communications is pretty tough sometimes.

I really think that the most sacred right afforded to Americans is the right to vote.

I think they have since adjusted those laws.

In light of this Administration's and Secretary Chu's troubling energy policies, it is imperative that the Committee vet the objectives laid out in this memorandum.

I'd like to yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Tipton).

I too rise in support of Mr. Perlmutter's comments in relationship to our own Aurora Police Department, as well as all the other law enforcement entities that have helped in this terrible tragedy. I now yield as much time as he may consume…