Johnny Isakson

My only point is, at some point in time, you probably have to make the decision that you are going to have to have some military presence over a protracted period of time if, in fact, victory is important enough to you to send troops to…

We need to make that declaration at some point in time.

I would submit to you that the enemy we face today... is every bit as lethal, every bit as awful, and every bit as big a threat to America as was the World War II effort against Nazi Germany and the Axis powers in the Pacific.

I thank the chairman for that answer. I would like his commitment to work with me and other members of the caucus who are concerned and who want to be assured that the SEC will move forward with the implementation of this replacement…

I am a big, big believer, because I have seen this. We need to do more of it.

If they sign for us to fight and risk their lives, they deserve every benefit unfettered that we promise them when they sign up.

I think 15 percent of our military is made up of people who are foreign nationals who are here on permits.

There is no privatization of the VA and there is no diminishing of the VA

We do not want to fire anybody. We do not want to privatize the VA.

There are a lot of people who think that the Merit Systems Protection Board... are there to keep them from getting fired.

I want to make sure you commit to me that, when you have situations like this pop up, you will quickly tackle them.

I want to be a part of a news-free VA that only is making news because of the good things it is doing.

I am sick and tired of turning on Fox television and CNN... and there is rarely a week goes by that at least one morning... somebody has got a story about maggots being found in the wound of a veteran in a hospital.

I want to see to it the veterans getting the benefits that they have earned by serving their country.

We got the money to finish that hospital.

The Denver hospital is the perfect example.

It was not an increase in the cost of the benefits.

I think some--Choice contributed to that.

I am committed to accomplishing those two things in this 2-year term on the Committee.

We are not about privatizing health care for veterans. We are about making health care more available to veterans.

Any one of us can sit at this dais and say give me 'yes' or 'no' answers and demonstrate the point we want to make, but that all of us, Republican and Democrat alike, are interested in saving Social Security for our seniors, making…

Would these cuts not also break the pledge of not cutting Medicare?

We were concerned it would cut cancer patients' benefits and, more often, it would be a cut to the Medicare benefit to seniors.

You are going to try to improve it and reform it.

Tom Price understands the value of Social Security and the value of Medicare.