Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"To achieve reform in this appeals process is to achieve historic reform this year, and it should be this year."

"I expect the Department to be much more transparent, as well as effective, with Congress and taxpayers who are footing the bill for this gross mismanagement."

"I want to reaffirm my own feeling that the VSOs have been really instrumental in the past year's efforts by the Congress and by the VA to improve performance."

"Every one of the major construction projects undertaken by the VA in the past several years has been way over budget and way behind schedule."