Elizabeth Esty: “We have got to figure out how to move much more nimbly.”

I am happy to welcome everyone here today as we enter the home stretch on the implementation of the Appeals Modernization Act.

I want to make sure that VA is using RAMP to inform the new system, and not as a means to disguise a true size of the appeals backlog.

I believe it is a model that for large-scale policymaking that other Committees--this Committee and other Committees--should look to duplicate.

We should not expect our veterans to be experts in appeals law, Veterans Affairs regulations. That is not their job. It is our job to take care of them.