David Shulkin

Ask the veterans what they think of the services that they are getting.

I will meet you there.

to care for him who shall have borne the battle.

It is a broken process. It will not get better without your help, and we certainly hope that you and your colleagues will pass a modernization act this year.

I will continue to request appropriate levels of funding to ensure that Veteran homelessness is rare, brief, and nonrecurring.

I think that trust was eroded, particularly with the wait time crisis in April 2014, and many people lost trust.

The Department of Veterans Affairs will not be privatized under my watch.

If you do not have trust in the group that is empowered to take care of you and provide you services, you cannot do your job very well.

Our country's sacred obligation to fully honor our commitments to our Veterans is deeply personal to me.

Unfortunately, it was determined to be unconstitutional, and now the Department of Justice did not choose to go and to defend that.

I expect to be held accountable if you give me that authority and I am not getting the job done.

Northport's next step is fully resolving its HVAC systems and has engaged an outside consultant to complete a full evaluation of the system.

This would be irresponsible just to turn people out with no deductibles, no cost-control mechanisms.

We believe that we understand the needs of veterans best.

We are just getting it to work. If we could get Veterans First passed through, it is even going to work a lot better.

We believe that, as the VA, we need to take that responsibility, that when a veteran goes out to the private sector, we still have to own the responsibility for that health care.

I think, as Senator Boozman said, some of these problems date back years and years.

We do not want to find ourselves, like Senator Boozman said, 50 years down the road with outdated technology.

I truly believe this is a new VA.

I hope the VA's prepared to provide that information today at the hearing.

Many of the deficiencies in the IT programs that underlie the VA health care system have already been laid out by Chairman Coffman, and I agree with his comments regarding the urgent nature of the ongoing efforts to modernize the VA…

I think there are many, many good things about the VistA system and VistA Evolution, which is the newer sort of what we call eHMP, it's the web-based version; it also has many, many great features.

VA needs the ability to have veterans schedule appointments themselves. No question about it.

We're trying to make the best decision for, exactly as you're saying, the veterans and the taxpayers, and everything's on the table.

it's working today, millions of veterans' lives depend upon it.