Johnny Isakson

I want to congratulate you on closing four of the six--that is a record--in a short period of time.

The Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act remains a good first step toward real choices for veterans--provided VA is held accountable to deliver real choice.

If we apply common sense to these problems, we could solve them all.

If the financial burden to the Senate burns the money that we appropriate out sooner than later, that is a good problem to have because we are getting our veterans the care they deserve.

You ought to send a memo to each of the Senate offices.

We are here to help. Sometimes you are going to have to tell us where you need the help.

Thank you, Senator Moran. I think this meeting is a crossroads for us and a good crossroads.

We are all in this together, which is why each member has got a coin at their seat.

Sally Yates is going to astonish the United States of America. She is exactly what this country needs in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, DC.

I've never had one I looked forward to more than today in introducing Sally Quillian Yates as the President's nominee for the Deputy Attorney General of the United States of America.

I am pleased to share the dais with John Lewis, a Georgia hero, and is a legend of civil rights in our country.

We in Congress have been reluctantly moving toward finally getting to a cyber security bill, which, hopefully, we'll do pretty soon.

Our cyber-laws are way out of date with our cyber-criminals, and the quicker we in Congress act on that legislation, the more taxpayers will be safe from fraud.

I hope Director Cordray will be as aggressive on protecting people from tax fraud as he is from other frauds in society.

We worked hard on the Sunscreen Innovation Act, which passed Congress last year, to try and expedite the time and extent applications for ingredients to be approved for over the counter sunscreen products.

I'm a victim of melanoma twice, and the surgeon general has issued a report that melanoma is costing America $8.1 billion a year in health.

I think it would be easier administratively to move to a subtraction method, cash-based.

The leasing mechanisms at the VA are deplorable. The construction disciplines are deplorable.

The reason we came up with this was choice, and it is a choice.

We are costing ourselves more money by letting deferred maintenance cause obsolescence than by having an active maintenance process.

The delivery of that health care is locked in the 19th century while the quality of that health care is in the 21st century.

We will not let the detractors tear us down nor let the protractors protract it out, but instead work together to improve the VA.

Well, I supported concurrent receipt and what we did, and I think it was the right thing to do.

In 36 years in legislative office, in one office or another, either in the State or the Federal Government, I have seen lots of consolidations and lots of reorganizations.

I want to give you the time to make your request and make your points.