Jeff Miller: “Mr. Chairman on rollcall No. 251, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no.''”

I think that they have put the secretary basically in a box. They won't let him get out and speak. We haven't heard anything from him on this particular issue.

I can tell you this, after what I heard today I am less convinced that the appropriate leadership is in place at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

No, it wasn't a clerical error, and I'll tell you one even worse than that. In Pittsburgh, where at least six veterans died from Legionnaire's disease because the water was contaminated and they knew for a year the director of the…

I think it was an appropriate action. They do not need to have the people who are at the top of the list of causing the problems still at that particular facility. I think I have heard widespread acceptance from a lot of my colleagues…