Johnny Isakson: “I remain concerned that the VA has hired just 47 clinicians in the 2 months prior to that hearing.”

I will follow up on the Senator's points. We need to do what we did last year when Republicans and Democrats stayed up here for 2 weeks while the government was shut down. We worked out an immigration agreement, and we got the DACA…

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

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…

I don't want to cut anybody out, but I want to make that point. I yield to Senator Shelby. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Crapo). The Senator from Alabama.