Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"Thanks, Mr. Chairman, and thanks for your kind words earlier today about working together on the Denver facility and on the bipartisanship that characterizes everything we do on this Committee."

"I think it is also your responsibility to give us your best opinion, because as much as we would like to think we are well informed, and we are probably better informed than a lot of our colleagues on..."

"If you have met--and I hope you have--veterans who have waited for years for their claims to be resolved, and you hear and feel their justifiable anger, I would like you to feel that anger yourselves."

"Well, you predicted it is going to expand. If it does, yes or no?"