Richard Blumenthal

The rights of people who suffer as victims of crime while at sea are completely inadequately protected.

Thank you for championing this bill, which I am very, very proud to co-sponsor.

I would like your commitment that you will assist and support that investigation to hold accountable anybody in the VA who has committed fraud...

One of its very distinct assets is its very dedicated people, its trained professionals who do such great work.

Ultimately, the victims are not just those veterans, but also taxpayers, because it is taxpayer money that often is lost.

I raised the specter of the VA as comparable to a bankrupt corporation.

I hope that will be a priority for you and that you can commit that women's care for veterans at the VA facility in New Haven... will be a priority for you.

Public service is in your blood. It is part of who you are, and, I thank you for that ethic and tradition.

If we are going to start, for example, correlating Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome with events that occurred during the military experience, that is cutting-edge stuff.

Our Nation's heroes are a public trust, so the corporation that you are about to take over will not be measured by its profitability but how well it serves our Nation's heroes.

If we do not reach a conclusion on this legislation, the U.S. Senate is deserving of that same condemnation.

The VA needs... to choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.

This letter provides the requested follow-up to your question to me at the July 17, 2014 Senate Subcommittee Hearing.

I hope you will reconsider, as I hope you will on the Candice Anderson issue.

Will it be his discretion alone as to whether applicants are given time to postpone their decisions until after the Department of Justice concludes its investigation?

I wonder if you would agree with me that corporate officials who conceal or hide dangerous defects that can cause deaths or injuries ought to be held criminally culpable.

I think you can fairly gather that this committee is listening with a fair amount of incredulity to the contention that the General Counsel of this company had no knowledge about this defect or about the concealment of the defect and the…

I hope that you will come back to this panel with different answers. If not, I would respectfully suggest that this company is not well served by your continuing.

But he has not, at least so far as I'm aware, definitively stated whether then applicants can postpone the decision as to whether to accept the offer from the fund or bring private litigation.

It would appear to be in GM's interest to make public some of those documents and testimony that underlie your report.

Ms. Barra, will you recommend to the Governor of Texas that he pardon Ms. Anderson?

If GM is really serious about changing its culture and imposing a new era of truth-telling and accountability, the place to start is with your legal department.

We will work with that claimant to try and cure that deficiency.

The lawyers for GM actually enabled cover-up, concealment, deceit, and even fraud.

I happen to believe that the compensation fund has to be expanded.