Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"Unfortunately, you made the point, I agree, that very often bureaucracies devote more time and effort and ingenuity to denying claims than enabling them."

"They haven't completed them."

"In this instance, it is almost criminally overdue because Congress and the country have simply chosen to look the other way."

"I understand from the BVA that this type of cancer is rare in the civilian population, but it is ten times more common among Vietnam era veterans and currently is not being considered for an epidemiol..."