Debbie Wasserman Schultz

More women are choosing VA for their health care than ever before.

We protected funding for women's health care, all while defeating attempts to restrict women's access to abortion.

Upholding our commitments to the Nation's heroes is a critical mission.

Public service is the rent you pay for space on this earth.

It is really essential that we make sure that we do all we can structurally to help ensure that veterans get the care they need.

I support your request to break out medical care as a third budget category, and I urge my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to join us in doing the same.

In our fiscal year 2025 budget request for your department, for the Department of the VA, includes $337 billion.

I have been supportive of the request for the third budget category for VA medical care.

But the current budget submission has it still within women's health care.

I am incredibly supportive of that program, especially because you have a 58 percent no-show or cancellation rate of VA appointments for veterans with children due to a lack of childcare.

It is really important that women have separate care in separate centers.

The potential for Telehealth to count as care in the VA?

The purpose of the MISSION Act was to get veterans care more quickly than we were able to get them care at the VA.

I do not want anyone stepping on my air hose.

I know I had real concerns about making sure that we maintained--it is maintained and we even added $10 million in the final result of our bill.

And quite frankly, addressing global warming and climate change, and the impact it has on the deterioration of our infrastructure certainly is a quality-of-life issue.

I do just want to correct the record from my friend from Montana because the number he cited, which I heard the skepticism in your voice, Madam Secretary, of $1.256 billion going to purchase electric vehicles is actually the amount for the…

The responsiveness with military family housing has been atrocious, so much so that we had to put in $130 million and then $140 million in the last 2 years for oversight at the military leadership

I just hope this raises a caution flag on moving forward on barracks and unaccompanied housing because I don't trust them.

The privatization process is a failure in terms of maintaining the quality of life of housing.

Understanding the data is a critical tool in order to ensure that.

The goal is prevention.

That is incredibly important to understand whether the numbers that you are looking at are the result of more reporting or more assaults.

Are the Navy and the Marines doing something similar to more granularly zero in on your own data in your service rather than the general across the board DoD service like the Army has?

If you can just follow up with us with more detail about how that question instrument was designed that would be helpful.