We want to make sure the integrity of the programs that raise the money by the syndicators is intact.

There are two tax credit programs created by Congress. One is the Conservation Easement Tax Credit program and the other is the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program.

Were the tax credit program not available, would you have had that big an investment?

It has a multiplier effect in terms of what it does for generating more moderate-income housing.

We have had manufactured crises of running out of money when, in fact, we really were not running out of money at all.

I hope you are able to make that happen, because it would be an important function for them to do.

If we can do that together, elected officials, senior appointed members of the VA, and rank and file employees, then we will change the culture of the Veterans Administration, in my judgment, all for the better.

The success of the failure of the accountability program lies squarely on your shoulders.

If Jon does his job and I do mine, and we have a majority of the Committee present for a quorum on the floor of the Senate tomorrow, on the first vote, then we will hold your markup tomorrow.

The most important thing we can hear in this Committee is that we improve our appeals process and get that problem straightened out.

Probably one of the greatest innovations over the last 10 years, in terms of services for our veterans, because of the nature of service today and the type of warfare that they are more often engaged in, have been the development of…

It is important that we listen to them but it is also important for them to listen to us.