Johnny Isakson: “We are ready anytime, any place, anywhere, if somebody thinks we are taking away something to hurt a veteran.”

Success now and in the future will require close collaboration between the VA and Congress, a focus on engagement as well as accountability.

I just want to say to the gentleman from Ohio that I have been to the Edmund Pettus Bridge. I went there with John Lewis. John Lewis is a great American. I supported title V and the Civil Rights Act. So I appreciate your remarks and your…

I am not saying it to be ugly. Facts are facts, and I am scared that a Freudian slip--which I am sure that probably was or something like that--might be something that causes us to get lost again. No. 1, I want to point out that in your…

You are a great chairman. You are a great friend. You are a great example to our country.