Johnny Isakson

I want to associate myself with the comments that Mr. Crapo made about your willingness to come to this committee and testify.

Your budget slashes investments in education, infrastructure, and research and development.

I am worried about the 3-percent growth rate assumptions.

The Administration's budget proposal released on May 23, 2017, contains a provision that would round down cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) for our Nation's injured and ill veterans and their families and survivors for a period of 10…

On behalf of Got Your 6, I would like to extend our gratitude for the opportunity to share our views regarding several of these pieces of legislation.

The VFW salutes Chairman Isakson, Ranking Member Tester, Senator Rubio and the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs leadership for reaching a bipartisan deal on this important bill.

IAVA applauds the leadership and diligence of Senators Rubio, Chairman Isakson and Ranking Member Tester toward crafting the Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act.

We have been working with Secretary Shulkin to come forward with new parameters to try and deal with these glitches so it does not happen again.

We need to make it work good for our veterans and for the Veterans Administration.

The delay not only hurts the veteran, it hurts the Veterans Administration as well.

Well, thank you, Senator Rubio. For the benefit of the entire audience here today, as well as those watching on the network, Senator Rubio has worked tirelessly over the last 2 years, along with almost every Member, if not every Member of…

It makes no sense--indeed, it is wrong--to deny veterans the flexibility to maintain their independence.

He does one hell of a job promoting what he believes in.

The need for legislation follows a Federal appellate court decision this past week that rendered unconstitutional the process used to fire the former director of the Phoenix VA Health Care System.

Thank you, Senator Rubio, for doing that.

We encourage Senate and House leaders to quickly work together to pass the strongest VA accountability measure that can be signed into law.

I trust that my bill will be given open and fair consideration.

My bill helps them to do that.

I would not be here today were it not for a caregiver over the last 12 weeks.

I worked closely with Senator Blumenthal in that process and will continue to so this Committee can, in fact, deal with it.

We are about to hear testimony on accountability, meaningful accountability, which addresses the concerns that for 2 years have plagued this Committee and plagued the Veterans Administration.

It is an honor for us to have him here today to testify.

It is a great piece of legislation. And Senator Warner and I had one of the provisions in that bill, which is very important to us, on home health care.

The absence of knowing exactly what the cyberthreat is, is the equivalent to that period of time.

Syria was a war of proxies--plural, proxies, a lot of them--which I thought was very true.