Doug Collins: “The motto of the VA comes straight from Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural. He got that idea straight from scripture.”

We have been emphatic that we will not be cutting benefits and health care, only improving them, and I think the budget shows that.

The reduction-in-force, or layoff plan, has been put on hold.

But the federal government does not exist to employ people. It exists to serve people.

“We're committed to making that happen in the areas that we can.”