Richard Blumenthal

How does DOD plan on ensuring that every servicemember received training, education, and credentials needed to successfully transition to the civilian workforce?

As we undertake various efforts to downsize, DOD will be returning thousands of capable veterans to the civilian workforce.

How can we get such a system in operation in Connecticut in order to expedite the processing of claims for our deserving veterans?

Although there seems to be some agreement on what a shared or interoperable electronic medical record should look like, there still is not one in practice.

Because anybody can be a victim of hacking or intrusion, but no one should in any way delay notification to consumers once it has happened.

Ultimately, notice should happen reasonably promptly.

In my view, there should have been earlier discovery.

The best technology in the world is useless unless there is good management.

I am very concerned about discrimination against veterans, particularly in employment situations and most especially when it comes to PTS.

I would be more than happy to do so.

There are perhaps physical facilities available to provide homes to veterans who are suffering on our streets.

Thank you for your service to our Nation over many years and for providing information to me at our last meeting.

A law is a blunt and cumbersome instrument to work against it, but I hope that perhaps I can work with you in documenting the discrimination if it exists, then doing something to counter it.

I refer to it as PTS rather than PTSD because I think that calling it a disorder gives it a kind of stigma that is completely unjustified.

For me, it is a very serious legal action but also one that really embodies a moral imperative.

I am hopeful that the Federal VA, your agency, will help our State Department of Veterans Affairs.

It is a moral imperative, an obligation of this country, not to mention the need to settle this lawsuit, which I fully support because I think legally it is well-justified.

The urgency of this cause, I think, is no less, perhaps even more than it was when we last discussed it.

Ending homelessness by 2015 is one of your preeminent goals.

A constitutional right to privacy obviously cannot include the right to engage in private conduct which was condemned as criminal at the very time that the Constitution was ratified.

You may recall in February 2004, in your capacity then as a State legislator, you spoke on the floor of the Georgia House of Representatives in favor of a resolution calling for a proposed constitutional amendment that would have banned…

You are really going to serve as the protectors and guardians of our Nation's legal conscience.

This one strikes me as profoundly significant insofar as it involved not just a matter of constitutional rights...

Were you unaware about the violence that was linked to performing abortions at that time?

The positions that you are hopefully going to occupy are positions of immense trust and importance to our justice system.