Political Quotes

“Madam President, I want to commend Chairman Sanders for his leadership. Last night at 9:30 p.m., I came back to the Capitol and executed a conference agreement that he has worked very hard on, and ranking member Senator Burr worked very hard on, and pulled together disparate factions to address the needs of our veterans in a bill that is going to be a toolkit for Robert McDonald, who I hope will be unanimously approved as the next Secretary of the VA in the President's Cabinet. I rise to talk about Mr. McDonald, but before I do, I want to talk about that conference report. Our veterans have been abused in the last 10 to 12 years because of a veterans' medical service that has not performed the services they need to perform for our veterans in America. One of the reasons they did this is, Admiral Shinseki, who was the former Secretary, was actually insulated from a lot of the information that was going on in his own Department by the senior leadership at the VA who had become comfortable and passive and not active in terms of the operation of VA medical services. The bill we signed last night that the Senate will vote on in the next few days is the bill that gives Mr.…”