Richard Blumenthal

I think a more relevant and certainly more important one is that post-recall-notice injury and death rate.

I would like to see numbers.

There really is a common goal here.

And the telecommunications companies often blame the terrain or woods.

State franchising doesn't provide for the continuation of institutional networks.

This area has about 22 towns and 200,000 residents, including Meryl Streep and Henry Kissinger and a number of other boldfaced names that would be well known to you, but it is covered in a way that local officials and residents say is…

Thanks, Mr. Chairman. And thank you for having this hearing on a really important topic that has national implications, I think in every state in the country.

Promises should be kept, as a matter of morality

I want to thank you for recognizing this very, very important topic.

I joined in the lawsuit. I supported it.

The goal here is to go beyond meeting the immediate, as you say, the urgent apparent need that may be on the streets right now, but to provide a more permanent solution, and that is the goal here, an equally difficult goal, but one that I…

I think all this testimony has been enormously valuable, and I appreciate particularly, Mr. Norris, your mention of both homelessness and Post Traumatic Stress, PTS.

The procedure is complicated. It is needlessly fraught with red tape.

S. 1885 seeks to modernize housing programs provided by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), to ensure they are appropriately meeting the needs of homeless veterans and their families.

I think it is absolutely vital, and I want to thank Senator Tester for his leadership.

I want to thank the Chairman for his leadership on this issue and others, although I am not sure I am wholly in accord with his eulogy.

I think it is within the purview of your responsibility to make sure that disability claims for the benefit of veterans are processed as expeditiously as possible.

I think that there is a need for more outreach to the homeless, from what I have seen at least in Connecticut.

There is a real and pressing need to move forward on many of these issues.

I want to offer my strong support for the bills mentioned by my colleagues, as well as for Senator Tester's DOCS for Veterans Act.

I think this hearing is very important because it deals with mental health, with equality of justice, and with homelessness.

I think the most telling word in that title is 'service.' You have truly been of service to the veterans of America.

I support this measure.

The increase, in my view, really ought to be a permanent one.

These bigger gathering pipelines pose a greater threat because, if they rupture, obviously they can contaminate a larger area.