"The VFW supports most aspects of the Care Veterans Deserve Act of 2016, but we have serious concerns with the bill's significant expansion of the Choice program."
"the VA has been very much reaching out, and your leadership in passing ARCH to begin with and now memorializing that program in provider agreements and equalizing reimbursement across programs so ever..."
"What do we say to the veterans who have been waiting, 445,000 of them?"
"The objective that we set out to achieve here is for most appeals to be resolved within a year or less."
"We are really proud of what we did when we reformed the Workforce Investment and Opportunity Act and it is getting more training targeted at our veterans which is what it is all about."
"I am very hopeful, in fact, optimistic, that we can bring the Veterans First Act to a successful conclusion..."
"Senator Blumenthal and you, I think, represent the best of us in the U.S. Senate in working together."
"We passed the Veterans First bill out of this Committee unanimously..."
"We must reform the appeals process. We have to improve VA's programs for providing care in the community..."
"it enhances Choice access for veterans to get provider agreements and things like that for care in the community, but it in no way moves toward the VA going out of business and privatizing the VA."
"I want to thank everyone from the VSOs for their testimony and the members of the Veterans Administration for their testimony in the previous panel."