Johnny Isakson

I was overwhelmingly impressed with the specialty services available at Clairmont--particularly blindness, specialty services like that.

Will the Department normally, based on the study they run, make the request, or do you wait for the State through their Representatives or Senators to make the request for that consideration?

I do appreciate your emphasis on women.

So the timely opening of Brunswick and Hinesville will make a dramatic improvement in the accessibility for veterans in this region?

I want to thank the Technical College and their President for all their cooperation and hospitality in allowing us to hold this hearing today.

Well, I want to thank you. I learned a lot, and I appreciate your candor.

Communication is a very important thing, and a lot of frustration with services is more out of frustration with the lack of information and communication than it is the actual service.

I think that is an appropriate issue to raise; and I think as the VA contracts for services, that recognition should be there.

I want to thank the hospital publicly for the efforts they have made in terms of shuttles and other things.

On behalf of all Georgians and all Americans, we thank you for your service.

Well, it is a great credit to Augusta.

Does that beg the question that the need is a clinic, an outpatient clinic specifically for those PTSD, TBI, and other related mental health services?

I would like to personally ask if you would make sure that you reach out to the banks and the development community who have put in over $400 million in investments in the Hinesville-Fort Stewart area in anticipation of that combat team…

That is an outstanding condition.

If you, as the safety manager, have any concerns and come to me, we will shut it down.

When I got on American Eagle, in Chicago, Monday, 2 weeks ago, to fly to Washington, I got on that plane the same way I walk into a McDonald's.

Not only if we skip it, but if we have an illegitimate election; it will ensure that the February 2011 referendum in the South will be a secession vote, I would think.

If we skip the election, I think it's going to be very difficult to have free, fair, and credible referenda.

One of the keys to the CPA is for legitimate elections to take place in Sudan in 2010.

I think it's important to know, Mr. Chairman and Senator Lugar, that it is one thing to not have any evidence of cooperation, but then to have an overt act where, in fact, they were helping in counterterrorism, begs the question that…

The sooner, the better.

You mentioned one-stop. Senator Murray and I are on the Labor Committee and the Subcommittee on Occupational Safety and we oversee the Workforce Investment Act.

I would like for you to comment on the concept of a one-stop shop where everybody that wants to help veterans comes together.

We are in a defining moment right now in terms of veterans' employment.

I don't know that there is a one-stop coordinated place.