Well, thank you, Chairman Sanders, and thank you for your vigilant effort on what is the number 1 challenge facing the VA and the number-one frustration facing every American veteran returning home.

In Secretary Hickey's testimony--I think I wrote this down right--she said the redeployment of VBMS was in full swing from portal to decision. Is that an accurate statement?

I appreciate all the witnesses' testimony and appreciate what they've done.

I rise today, in this year of 2013, on the tenth anniversary of the State of the Union Address given by President George W. Bush when he introduced a program known as PEPFAR-- the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief--a program…

Well, as someone who ran a business for a long time and, being dependent on the technological revolution, started transitioning consumer access to our services away from human beings and to technology access, you had better be sure you get…

So that is the $5 billion, correct?

I think also our inability to do budgets and appropriations on the Senate side and some of the difficulties we have had, demanded of us to change the paradigm and change the structure in which we make these considerations.

It's kind of professional malpractice for us to be blaming schools for the performance of a law which we haven't reauthorized in, I think, 5 years.

I think education and transparency is invaluable in people making the right decision for themselves.

I appreciate the comments of Mr. Moslander regarding the drawdown phase, because we are always talking about the accumulation phase and beginning the process, but taking the money out the wrong way can leave people without any retirement…

yesterday the Senate overwhelmingly confirmed the nomination of John Kerry to be the next Secretary of State of the United States of America. I was away from the Capitol during the 2 hours allocated for that debate, and I wanted to add my…

I want to memorialize here publicly, in front of everybody, including those on television, that, Senator Murphy, I'm delighted to accept you as the replacement for Jeff Bingaman as the lead co-sponsor of the act.