David Shulkin

I think Ms. Brownley's bill with G.T. Thompson really narrows the focus of the VA.

We need top-quality health care professionals to deliver excellent care and it is a very competitive market.

Well, first of all, I have already indicated my strong support for allowing us to be able to access a non-veteran donor.

We greatly appreciate the Committee including the Administration's proposal for comprehensive improvements to the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) Community Care program, the Veteran Coordinated Access & Rewarding Experiences (CARE)…

We want to permanently authorize this and that is where the issue of us identifying some final offsets to pay for this comes in.

I would urge us to work together on that.

I think that is going to be a big deal in eliminating a gap right now that we have.

I need help in doing that.

Peer support is something that we are really committed to.

It should not be that hard to get people on board.

we're able to accomplish so much more when we work strategically with our private and public sector partners.

If we say we are going to commit to something, my expectation is that we commit to it.

That is a VA strategy that I think is super effective.

I think expanding VA access in mental health will save lives.

It is time to stop researching it and start putting it into practice.

Please provide written responses to the attached questions for the record regarding the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations field hearing entitled, ``An Assessment of Leadership Failures at the Manchester''

He was with the president on Saturday, and that he observed President Trump to be outraged and upset about what was going on in Charlottesville.

I think that if we continue talking about and throwing budgets up that do not fully address the problems of our veterans in this country--and we have been at war now for 15 years--and we have got Vietnam vets that are getting older and you…

Florida, as you know, is one of our fastest-growing States in terms of veterans and retired veterans.

It is not designed to privatize VA. It is designed to provide veterans the best care available in the most timely fashion.

I feel comfortable with the President's budget, but you may be right and I may be wrong.

The only thing I would like to add besides thanking you for those last comments is that one thing that I think that veterans across the country appreciate and certainly we do at VA is the bipartisan nature in which issues with veterans are…

We would like to go further this time and expand more and use that potentially so that those who train in the residency program would then enter the VA for a specified period of time to practice.

I believe this is going to help us improve morale. It is going to help us improve recruitment because people want to work alongside people that share their values.

We will continue to look at where veterans need new facilities and advanced facilities.