Richard Blumenthal

I am grateful to Chairman Casey for the Disaster Relief Medicaid Act, which I have co-sponsored, which ensures that individuals eligible for Medicaid who are forced to relocate during a disaster are able to continue access to Medicaid…

I am willing to try anything and everything that we can to provide the support that is needed by our veterans.

I hope you will support this legislation. This program is vital to our veterans.

It is not enough to contemplate it. It is to do it that we want.

I must say that I am disappointed with your apparent opposition to the Building Credit Access for Veterans Act of 2021 in contrast to the VFW.

What we are trying to do is show that these alternatives do work, and the best way to do it is through a pilot program.

Congress has to deliver. We need to get it done. And as one who will be running for reelection in 2022, I need results that I can show the American people.

I think we need to address this issue with the vigor and aggressiveness that it demands.

I have introduced a measure called the Unlawful Turn-Aways Act of 2021, which would require the VA to conduct outreach to less-than-honorably discharged veterans in the same way that they do currently the honorably discharged.

But I suspect at some point the VA and DOD computer operations will be a case study for a business school somewhere, and it is not going to be this is how it should be.

I want to make sure I hear it with my own ears.

I introduced, along with Senator Tim Scott, a measure called Building Credit Access for Veterans Act.

I think clearly prevention is the most important part of this.

The Coast Guard Museum is a continuing priority and will work with us in seeking additional funds, correct?

Thank you. I understand that you are committed to implementing the goals and objectives of the recent Rand report.

And I am assuming that the commitment extends the Coast Guard academy and outreach and recruitment, as well as working toward inclusion----

We can't afford to go back to the way we did telehealth before COVID-19.

Broadband, in other words, high speed, affordable broadband is really an essential need. It is not a convenience or a luxury.

Don't you play a role in enforcing the statute that is already in our law that bans deceptive recruiting?

These predatory institutions leave our veterans with a substandard education, meanwhile taking those benefits which are, at the end of the day, taxpayer funds.

The VA must leverage all of its existing statutory processes to try to stop this deceptive recruiting and enticement of veterans to go to for-profit schools if they fail to provide the real value that veterans expect.

The GI Bill is not only one of the most vital programs that the VA provides to our veterans, but it is also in recent years a target of for-profit schools that have been allowed to aim at our veteran population with deceptive recruiting…

That algorithm could be changed.

Thank you, Senator Markey, and my thanks to Senator Markey for his leadership over many years on protecting children.

I think people tend to lose sight of the real world impact here.